LoJack® System Helps Law Enforcement Recover Stolen 2013 Multiquip 40kw Generator
- June 16, 2015
- recovery stories
The operator of a 2013 Multiquip 40kw generator arrived at their jobsite and discovered the generator that they were using had disappeared from where it was last seen the day before. The operator contacted the Miami Police Department to report that their construction equipment was stolen.
The responding officer prepared a stolen vehicle report, theft affidavit and had the equipment’s information entered into the state and federal crime information computers.
Later that afternoon a Miami-Dade Police Department helicopter pilot lifted off from their Opa Locka hangar and immediately picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen 40kw generator on their on-board LoJack Police Tracking Computer (PTC). The dispatcher broadcasted a BOLO (Be On the Look Out) to the various law enforcement agencies in the area as well. The officer began tracking the stolen equipment by following the directional and audible cues on their PTC screen. The pilot was able to see the generator from the sky in a truck storage facility near N.W. 141st Street and N.W. 22nd Avenue and advised the ground units, who converged upon the storage facility. The gate of the facility was open, so the officers drove in. They were directed to the generator by the pilot and the signal that the stolen generator’s LoJack unit was sending. There were a number of other generators in the area of the stolen one. The officer queried the serial numbers through the state/federal crime computers. One of the numbers resulted in a “hit.” The LoJack equipped generator and the “other” generator were recovered, 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 2013 Green Multiquip 40kw generator in February 2014.