LoJack® System Helps Cypress Police Department Recover a Stolen Nissan Altima
- March 6, 2015
- recovery stories
The owners of a 2006 Nissan Altima were awakened in the early morning hours to the sounds of keys jingling inside their home. The owners found that a hot prowl burglar had entered their home through a rear sliding glass door, took the keys to their Nissan Altima and fled. The owners contacted the Cypress Police Department to report their Nissan was stolen during the burglary.
The Cypress PD verified the theft and entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Nissan.
Only 12 minutes later, officers from the Anaheim Police Department picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Nissan 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 officers tracked the Nissan to a hotel in the 2600 block of Lincoln Avenue in Anaheim. The Anaheim PD contacted the Cypress PD and several Cypress PD detectives responded to the location to take over the investigation. During the course of the investigation the detectives arrested two suspects staying at the hotel for the burglary and theft of the Nissan Altima. The detectives also identified two additional burglary victims from evidence collected and recovered a second stolen vehicle, 2001 Acura MDX, from the hotel parking lot.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Nissan Altima in March 2006 at Metro Nissan in Montclair, California.