LoJack® System Helps Law Enforcement Recover a Stolen 2006 Maroon Ford F-250

  • October 17, 2014
  • recovery stories
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The owner of a 2006 Maroon Ford F-250 discovered their truck missing. The owner contacted the Miami-Dade 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® System concealed in the pickup truck. Later that morning, a Miami Gardens Police Department officer 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 officer verified the theft information by having their dispatcher query the Reply Code that appeared on their PTC display. The officer began tracking the stolen vehicle by following the directional and audible cues on their PTC’s screen. The officer, along with their backup, located the vehicle backed into a parking space in the parking lot of a high school near N.W. 193rd Street and N.W. 12th Avenue, Miami Gardens. The vehicle was placed under surveillance. After a while the surveillance was terminated. The officers on the scene contacted the Miami-Dade School Board Police Department, who responded and picked up the investigation from there. The Miami-Dade School Board Police Department officers reviewed the surveillance video tapes of the parking lot and determined that they had a suspect that was a student in the school. The officers located the suspect, took him into custody and arrested him. The pickup truck was recovered, towed to the police impound yard for safekeeping, and removed from federal and state crime computer systems.

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The LoJack® System was installed in the 2006 Maroon Ford F-250 pickup truck in December, 2005.