LoJack® System Helps Law Enforcement Recover a Stolen 1994 Acura Integra
- January 30, 2015
- recovery stories
The owner of a 1994 Acura Integra 2-door coupe, heard their car start and ran from the bedroom to the balcony of their home, where they observed the Acura leaving the parking lot. The owner contacted the Miami-Dade Police Department to report their vehicle stolen. The responding officer prepared a stolen vehicle report, theft affidavit and had the vehicle’s information entered into the state and federal crime computers. This routine police procedure automatically transmits an activation command to the LoJack® System concealed in the 2-door Acura coupe to begin broadcasting its signal.
Immediately upon activation, a Broward County Sheriff’s Office deputy picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Integra on their on-board LoJack Police Tracking Computer (PTC), which assists law enforcement officers to locate stolen vehicles quickly and safely. The deputy began tracking the stolen Acura by following the directional and audible cues on their PTC screen. The deputy observed the occupied Acura traveling southbound on Rock Island Road. Upon seeing the police car behind, the driver of the stolen Acura turned off its lights and eventually parked the Acura in the 1400 block of Broadmoor, where the tracking deputy located the Acura. The Broward SO K-9 units responded and tracked the driver’s scent to some shrubbery alongside a house on Broadmoor. When the driver stood up, a set of keys were discovered. The driver was read his Miranda Rights from a card and stated that the keys were the owners of the house where he was located. Contact was made with the owner, who advised that the suspect was a friend of her son; but that keys were not hers, nor did the suspect live at the house. At that point the suspect was arrested for loitering and prowling. At the Broward SO district office, the suspect admitted that he knew the Acura was stolen and ran because he didn’t want to go to jail. The Acura 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 1994 Acura Integra 2-door coupe in December 2003 at Autoshield The Alarm Place in Miami, Florida.