LoJack® System Helps Baltimore County Police Department Recover Stolen Hyundai
- September 26, 2014
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The owner of a 2010 Hyundai Sonata contacted the Baltimore County Police Department to report that their vehicle was stolen from their home during an overnight burglary where the vehicle keys were taken in the 6700 block Averill Road in the White Marsh area of Baltimore County.
The Baltimore County Police Department verified the theft and entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the 2010 Hyundai Sonata.
A short while later, detectives from the Regional Auto Theft Team and flight officers in the Baltimore City aviation unit “Foxtrot”, picked up the silent LoJack® homing signals from the stolen 2010 Hyundai Sonata with the LoJack® Police Tracking Computers (PTC) that are installed in their patrol vehicles and helicopter. Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, the detectives and flight officers tracked the vehicle to the 600 block of West Lombard Street in Baltimore. At that location, detectives observed the vehicle parked and unoccupied. Surveillance conducted by the detectives on the stolen Hyundai resulted in the arrest of the burglary and auto theft suspect when they returned to the vehicle and attempted to leave the area.