LoJack® System Leads Utah Highway Patrol & Utah Motor Vehicle Enforcement Division to Stolen Nissan Sentra – Suspect Arrested
- November 5, 2014
- recovery stories
The owners’ of a 1999 Nissan Sentra discovered their vehicle had been stolen from the City of Taylorsville Utah sometime during the overnight hours. The owner immediately contacted the Unified Police Department who verified the theft and entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers, which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Nissan.
A short while later Utah Highway Patrol troopers picked up the silent signals from the LoJack® System installed on stolen Nissan Sentra with the LoJack Police Tracking Computers installed in their patrol vehicles not far from downtown Salt Lake. Following the directional and audible cues from the LoJack computer, troopers quickly tracked the vehicle to the area of 2100 S. 400 W. at the same time Utah State MVED were also tracking the vehicle. MVED set up surveillance on the car and waited for a suspect to return. Shortly afterwards a suspect did return to the vehicle and was taken into custody.
This same Nissan Sentra was stolen and recovered using the LoJack® System once before in November 2009 in Taylorsville Utah.
The LoJack® System was installed on the Nissan Sentra on May 12, 2000 at Power Nissan in Irvine, CA.