LoJack® System Helps Utah Motor Vehicle Enforcement Division Recover Stolen Audi Allroad
- May 27, 2015
- recovery stories
The owners of an Audi Allroad contacted the Salt Lake County Unified Police Department to report that their vehicle was stolen. A police officer verified the theft and had the vehicle information entered into the state and federal crime computers as stolen. This action automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Audi.
A short while later officers with the Utah Motor Vehicle Enforcement Division picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Audi with the LoJack Police Tracking Computers (PTC) that are installed in patrol vehicles.
Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, the officers tracked the Audi to a hotel parking lot near 3300 South in Salt Lake City. There the officers observed three persons loading luggage into the stolen Audi. All were safely detained for further investigation. One subject was identified as being responsible for being in possession of the stolen Allroad and was arrested. That person told officers that he had just been released from jail the day before. Also during the course of this investigation illegal drugs (heroin and methamphetamine) were recovered.
The Audi was recovered and was returned to the very happy owners.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Audi Allroad in May 2001 at Pass & Weisz in Burlington, Massachusetts.