LoJack® System Helps Baltimore City Police Department Recover Stolen Honda Accord
- October 17, 2014
- recovery stories
The owner of a 2009 Honda Accord contacted the Baltimore Police Department to report that their vehicle was stolen from their home in the 2600 block W. Belvedere Avenue in the northwest area of Baltimore.
The 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 2009 Honda Accord.
A short while later officers from the United States Park Police Department picked up the silent LoJack® homing signals from the stolen 2009 Honda Accord with the LoJack® Police Tracking Computers (PTC) that are installed in their patrol vehicles. Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, the officers tracked the vehicle to the 12000 block Pheasant Run Drive in the Laurel area of Prince Georges County, Maryland. At that location, officers observed the vehicle parked and unoccupied. Officers kept the vehicle under surveillance for a period of time until a suspect returned and attempted to drive away in the vehicle. The vehicle was stopped and the suspect arrested. The vehicle was then recovered and the owner notified.
The LoJack® System was installed in the 2009 Honda Accord during June, 2009 at Crown Honda in Durham, North Carolina.