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LoJack® System Helps Law Enforcement Recover a Stolen 2007 Audi A3

  • October 17, 2014
  • recovery stories
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The owner of a 2007 Audi A3 contacted the South Miami 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 Audi A3. Later that morning, a Miami-Dade Police Department officer picked up the silent LoJack® System homing signal from the stolen A3 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 dispatcher relayed the stolen vehicle’s description to the officer so that they could identify the vehicle when they observed it. 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 inside of a storage yard in the 3600 block of N.W. 116th Street. The Audi A3 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 2007 Audi A3 in April, 2009.


Printed from the LoJack Recovery Story Library.

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