LoJack® System Helps Baltimore City Police Department Recover Stolen Kia Rio
- October 16, 2014
- recovery stories
The owner of a 2008 Kia Rio contacted the Baltimore Police Department to report that their vehicle was stolen from their home in the 1200 block Mount Royal Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland.
Baltimore 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 2008 Kia Rio.
A short while later detectives from the Regional Auto Theft Team and flight officers in the Baltimore PD Aviation Unit “Foxtrot”, picked up the silent LoJack® homing signals from the stolen 2008 Kia Rio 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 200 block W. Chase Street in Baltimore. At that location, detectives observed the vehicle parked and unoccupied. The vehicle was recovered by detectives and towed to a location for safe keeping.
The LoJack® System was installed in the 2008 Kia Rio during June, 2008 at Enterprise 1850 in Glen Burnie, Maryland.