LoJack® System Helps Redlands Police Department Recover 2 Stolen Hondas and an Acura from a Chop Shop
- November 19, 2014
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The owner of this Honda Accord contacted the Rialto Police Department and reported that vehicle had been stolen. The officers verified the theft and entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers, which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Honda.
Officers from the Redlands Police assigned to the Multiple Enforcement Team (MET) had been conducting surveillances of a location in the 800 block of Lugonia in reference to possible Chop Shop activities. One of the officers drove near the location and picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Honda Accord with the LoJack Police Tracking Computers (PTC) that are installed in patrol vehicles and aircraft. A lengthy surveillance was initiated on the well-fortified residence while MET officers wrote up a request for a search warrant for the location. Upon execution of the search warrant, two suspects attempted to flee out the back of the stolen Honda and were quickly taken into custody without further incident. Inside the “barricaded location”, a female was found hiding in a closet. The MET detectives identified two other stolen vehicles on the property, a 1996 Accord Civic and a 1994 Acura Integra that had been stolen in 2010 from Los Angeles. The detectives also recovered stolen property that had been taken from another stolen vehicle cases earlier that week. The suspects were arrested and booked VC 10801 Operating a Chop shop as well as other felony violations.
The LoJack® Stolen Vehicle Recovery System was installed in this Honda Accord in June 1997.