LoJack® System Helps Chicago Police Department Recover Stolen Land Rover Range Rover

  • April 30, 2015
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The owners of a 2005 Land Rover Range Rover contacted the Chicago Police Department to report that their vehicle was stolen as they were having lunch in a restaurant on the 2000 block of N Western Ave in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood. The Chicago PD arrived on scene and after verifying the facts of steal entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Land Rover Range Rover.

Thirty minutes later officers from the Chicago PD Shakespeare District picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Land Rover with the LoJack Police Tracking Computers (PTC) that is installed in patrol vehicles and aircraft.  Following the directional and audible cues from the stolen vehicle, officers tracked the Land Rover to the parking lot of a fast food restaurant on the 2000 block of N Milwaukee Ave. The Land Rover was recovered less than two blocks from address of steal.

An employee of Enterprise Rentals, whom the victim had called for a rental, observed the police activity and steered the victim to the lot where she identified her recently stolen Land Rover. The Land Rover was recovered by the Chicago PD and returned to the owner before it could be stripped, cloned, used in a crime or damaged.

Range Rover

The LoJack® System was installed in the Land Rover Range Rover in November of 2007 at Laurel Jaguar of Tinley Park.