LoJack® System Helps Hyattsville Police Department Recover Stolen Honda Civic
- October 17, 2014
- recovery stories
The owner of a 2004 Honda Civic contacted the Hyattsville Police Department to report that their vehicle was stolen during an armed carjacking from the driveway of their home located in the 3600 block Nicholson Street in the Hyattsville area of Prince George’s County, Maryland.
The Hyattsville 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 2004 Honda Civic.
A short while later officers from the United States Park Police Department and flight officers in that agencies’ aviation unit “Eagle One” picked up the silent LoJack® homing signals from the stolen 2004 Honda Civic with the LoJack® Police Tracking Computers (PTC) that are installed in their patrol vehicles and helicopters. Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, the officers tracked the vehicle to 295 at the Maryland/DC line where the vehicle was observed being operated by the robbery suspects. Units from U.S. Park PD, Prince Georges County PD, Hyattsville PD, District of Columbia Metropolitan PD and US Capital PD converged on the location and stopped the vehicle at 55th Street and E. Capital Street SE. At this time the two robbery suspects were taken into custody and two handguns recovered. Both of the suspects arrested are believed to be involved in several open unsolved armed car-jacking’s in Prince George’s County, Maryland.
The LoJack® System was installed in the 2004 Honda Civic during November, 2004 at College Park Honda in College Park, Maryland.