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LoJack® System Helps Law Enforcement Recover a Stolen 2008 Scion Tc

  • January 30, 2015
  • recovery stories
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The owner of a 2008 Scion Tc 2-door sedan contacted the Miami-Dade Police Department to report their vehicle stolen from their Kendall home. 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 Scion to begin broadcasting its signal.

Shortly thereafter an off-duty Medley Police Department K-9 officer picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Scion Tc 2-door sedan on their on-board LoJack Police Tracking Computer (PTC). The PTC enables law enforcement officers to track, locate and recover stolen vehicles quickly and safely. The officer began tracking the stolen Scion by following the directional and audible cues on their PTC screen, but lost it in traffic. An auto theft detective picked up the signal and began tracking it using their cues on their PTC screen. The detective, along with their backup, located the Scion parked unoccupied in a parking lot of an apartment complex near N.W. 119th Street and N.W. 27th Avenue. The Scion 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 2008 Scion Tc 2-door sedan in May 2008 at Headquarter Toyota in Miami, Florida.


Printed from the LoJack Recovery Story Library.

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