LoJack®System Helps Law Enforcement Recover a Stolen 2012 Silver Ford Focus
- October 17, 2014
- recovery stories
The owner of a 2012 Silver Ford Focus parked their car in front of the Palmetto Bay home, leaving the key fob in the car with the doors open. The next morning they discovered their vehicle 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® Stolen Vehicle Recovery System concealed in the Ford Focus. Later that afternoon, a Miami Police Department officer picked up the silent LoJack® System homing signal from the stolen Focus on their on-board LoJack® System Police Tracking Computer (PTC), which assists law enforcement officers to locate stolen vehicles quickly and safely. The officer began tracking the stolen vehicle by following the directional and audible cues on their PTC. Shortly thereafter, detectives from Miami PD’s Tactical Robbery Unit (TRU) picked up the signal. They tracked it to a street a block south of a high school and east of N.W. 7th Avenue. Upon observing the vehicle, the TRU detectives performed a “felony stop” on the vehicle, arresting the driver. The Ford Focus was recovered, towed to the police impound yard for safekeeping, and removed from federal and state crime computer systems.
The LoJack® System was installed in the 2012 Silver Ford Focus 4-door sedan in November, 2011.