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LoJack® System Helps Law Enforcement Recover a Stolen 2007 Blue Ford F-250 Pickup Truck

  • October 16, 2014
  • recovery stories
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The owner of a 2007 Blue Ford F-250 pickup truck discovered their vehicle missing from their home. The owner contacted the Plantation Police Department to report their vehicle stolen. The responding officer prepared a stolen vehicle report and theft affidavit and had the vehicle’s information entered into the state and federal crime computers. This routine police procedure automatically activated the LoJack® Stolen Vehicle Recovery System concealed in the pickup truck. Later that morning, a Miami-Dade Police Department aviation unit pilot picked up the silent LoJack® System homing signal from the stolen F-250 on their on-board LoJack® System Police Tracking Computer (PTC), which assists law enforcement officers to locate stolen vehicles quickly and safely.

The pilot verified the theft information by having their dispatcher query the Reply Code that appeared on their PTC display. The dispatcher relayed the stolen vehicle’s description to the officer so that they could identify the vehicle when they observed it. The pilot began tracking the stolen vehicle by following the directional and audible cues on their PTC’s screen. The officer located the vehicle in the area of N.W. 10th Avenue and N.W. 95th Terrace. The pilot requested ground units to respond to the area. The pilot then observed the vehicle behind a house in the 1000 block of N.W. 95th Terrace. The pickup truck was recovered, towed to the police impound yard for safekeeping, and removed from federal and state crime computer systems. It should be noted that this is the second time this pickup truck had been stolen. The last time was in July, 2012.

The LoJack System was installed in the 2007 Blue Ford F-250 pickup truck in October, 2006.


Printed from the LoJack Recovery Story Library.

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