LoJack® System Helps Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Recover a Stolen Honda Civic
- March 16, 2015
- recovery stories
The home owner’s security company alerted the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) of a home alarm. Officers arrived at the home to discover the front door dead bolt locked but the door handle unlocked, thus not allowing entry to the front door. The side doors were locked and the yard fence gates were also locked. The home owner was alerted of the alarm call and was on their way to the home to check the interior. Walking into the home the owner discovered they had been a victim of a daytime break in and larceny of property in excess of $12,000.00 and their 2008 Honda Civic had also been taken; probably being used as a transport and getaway vehicle. The intruders probably found the keys to the Honda, loaded the home’s stolen contents and drove the car away before the home owner arrived.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg 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 Honda.
Within the hour the Honda was entered as stolen the CMPD officers picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Honda 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 CMPD officers tracked the Honda to an apartment complex off Farm Pond Lane. The Honda was found backed into a parking space, empty, but no damages to the interior or exterior of the vehicle.
An examination of the Honda for latent evidence was made. An investigation continues to search pawn shop activity for the electronics and any use of banking records taken during the breaking and entering.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Honda Civic in May 2008 at Hendrick Honda in Charlotte, North Carolina.