LoJack® System Helps Law Enforcement Recover Stolen Ford F-250
- April 27, 2015
- recovery stories
The owner of a 2004 Ford F-250 pickup truck contacted the Delray Beach Police Department to report that their vehicle was stolen sometime during the night. The responding officer prepared a stolen vehicle report, theft affidavit and had the vehicle’s information entered into the state and federal crime information computers.
Immediately upon activation, a Miami-Dade Police Department officer picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen F-250 on their on-board LoJack Police Tracking Computer (PTC). The officer began tracking the stolen F-250 by following the directional and audible cues on their PTC screen. The Miami-Dade PD’s aviation unit helicopter responded to the area and located the stolen truck on a ranch near S.W. 161st Street and S.W. 208th Avenue. Surveillance was established on the property. Soon thereafter, a MDPD officer observed the truck driving eastbound on S.W. 168th Street. The officer followed the truck to S.W. 168th Street and S.W 172nd Avenue, where the suspect parked and exited the truck and jumped into another vehicle that was waiting for them. The vehicle fled eastbound on S.W. 168th Street at high rate of speed in an attempt to elude the officer. The officer and their backup officers located this second vehicle backed into a driveway in order to evade them in the 17000 block of S.W. 169th Avenue. The three occupants of the vehicle were apprehended and arrested. The pickup truck was recovered with ignition and driver’s door lock damage, towed to the police impound yard for safekeeping and removed from state and federal crime information computer systems.
The LoJack® System was installed in the 2004 Ford F-250 pickup truck at McRee Ford in Dickinson, Texas, in August 2004.