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LoJack® System Helps Philadelphia Police Department Recover Stolen Honda Accord

  • June 11, 2015
  • recovery stories
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The owner of a 2012 Honda Accord discovered that her vehicle had been stolen from in front of her residence in Northeast Philadelphia. The Honda owner called 911 and the Philadelphia Police Department Radio dispatched an officer to investigate the incident. The officer quickly arrived on location, interviewed the vehicle owner and searched the area for the stolen vehicle with negative results. The officer then prepared a stolen vehicle report and arranged to have the vehicle information entered into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Honda Accord.

A short while later, officers assigned to the elite Philadelphia PD Aviation Unit were on patrol over the City of Philadelphia in a Philadelphia PD Airship. The aviation officers reported that they had 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 aviation officers tracked the signal. The officers quickly located the Honda which was parked and apparently unattended in the area of 13th Street in Philadelphia. The aviation officers set up surveillance on the Honda and subsequently observed two males enter the Honda and drive northbound on 13th Street. The aviation officers began to relay the information relating the Honda’s location to police radio while a detective from the Philadelphia PD Major Crimes Auto Squad and Highway Patrol officers followed at a safe distance. The aviation officers provided information regarding a safe location for the Honda to be stopped away from innocent citizens. At this point the Honda was stopped by the detective and the highway officers and the occupants were placed under arrest.

The undamaged Honda was confiscated for safekeeping and the detective assigned to the Philadelphia Police Major Crimes Auto Squad took charge of the investigation. Both perpetrators were charged with violations of the Pennsylvania Crimes Code related to theft.

The LoJack® System was installed in the 2012 Honda Accord in October 2012 by Sloane Honda in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.


Printed from the LoJack Recovery Story Library.

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