LoJack® System Helps Law Enforcement Recover a Stolen 2006 Tan Ford F-250
- October 17, 2014
- recovery stories
The owner of a 2006 Ford F-250 discovered their vehicle missing from their home. The owner contacted the Miami Gardens 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 F-250. Later that morning, an investigator with the Auto Theft Task Force 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 investigator 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 investigator so that they could identify the vehicle when they observed it. The investigator began tracking the stolen vehicle by following the directional and audible cues on their PTC’s screen. The investigator, along with their backup from the Miami-Dade Police Department, located the vehicle abandoned in a parking lot of an apartment complex near N.W. 27th Avenue and 117th Street. The pickup truck was recovered with driver door lock and ignition damage, towed to the police impound yard for safekeeping, and removed from federal and state crime computer systems.
The LoJack® System was installed in the 2006 Tan Ford F-250 pickup truck in June, 2005.