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LoJack® System Helps Riverside County Auto Theft Interdiction Task Force (RAID) with an Arrest and Recovery of a John Deere Backhoe

  • December 16, 2014
  • recovery stories
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The supervisor at a construction site in charge of a 2005 John Deere backhoe contacted the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department to report the vehicle stolen from a construction site in Orange County.

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department verified the theft and entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the John Deere.
An hour later, Investigators from Riverside County Auto Theft Interdiction Task Force(RAID) picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen John Deere backhoe with the LoJack Police Tracking Computers (PTC) that are installed in patrol vehicles and aircraft.  Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, the investigators tracked the John Deere to the 2200 block of Gafford Street Road in Wildomar.  The John Deere Backhoe was seen behind a property, a male was arrested for vehicle theft and possession of stolen property.

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The John Deere was recovered undamaged.

The LoJack® System was installed in the John Deere Backhoe in August 2005.


Printed from the LoJack Recovery Story Library.

LoJack® unit activation is contingent upon the vehicle being located within LoJack’s coverage area that spans counties across 29 states throughout the U.S. and District of Columbia. You may find LoJack’s coverage areas at www.lojack.com/coverage or by calling 1-800-4-LoJack.

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