LoJack® System Helps Fullerton Police Department Recover Stolen BMW 325i
- October 16, 2014
- recovery stories
The owners of a 2006 BMW 325i contacted the Westminster Police Department to report their vehicle was stolen.
Westminster PD verified the theft and entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the BMW.
Only 18 minutes later several police agencies in Orange County picked up the silent LoJack® homing signals from the stolen BMW with the LoJack® Police Tracking Computers (PTC) that are installed in patrol vehicles and aircraft. Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, a Fullerton PD patrol officer tracked the vehicle to the area of Brookhurst and Orangethorpe in Fullerton. The officer located the unoccupied vehicle in a trailer park in the 1800 block of Orangethorpe. The officer maintained a visual on the vehicle from behind a block wall and had several assisting Fullerton PD officers waiting nearby. A short time later a male subject approached the vehicle and got into the driver’s seat. The officers approached the subject before he could drive away with the vehicle. The subject was found to be in possession of the key for the stolen vehicle. The subject was subsequently arrested.
The LoJack® System was installed in the BMW 325i in May 2006.