LoJack® System Helps Phoenix Police Department Recover Two Stolen Lincoln Welders
- February 9, 2015
- recovery stories
The owners of two portable Lincoln welders contacted the Tolleson Police Department to report that both welders had been stolen from the construction site. The welders were on a trailer with other tools and equipment that were valued at several thousand dollars. A video surveillance camera of the area showed the trailer and equipment/tools being taken the prior evening.
The Tolleson PD verified the theft and entered the equipment information into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Lincoln welders.
A short while later, patrol officers from the Phoenix Police Department picked up the silent LoJack signal from the two stolen welders with the LoJack Police Tracking Computers (PTC) that are installed in patrol vehicles and aircraft. Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, they tracked the Lincoln welders to a neighborhood near 43rd Avenue and Camelback Road in Phoenix.
The patrol officers tracked the welders to the backyard of a residence and made contact with the occupants of the residence. Consent was granted to the officers to look at the two welders in the backyard shed. Both Lincoln welders along with some of the stolen tools were identified and were recovered from inside the shed. The subject at the residence told police that he bought the two welders and tools from an unknown individual off the street corner near 107th Avenue and Lower Buckeye Road. Both Lincoln welders and the recovered tools were returned to the owner at the scene.
The trailer and other stolen tools and equipment were not observed at this location. Additional investigation is being conducted.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Lincoln welders in March 2006 and February 2006 through Commercial Sales.