LoJack® System Helps Colorado State Patrol Recover Stolen Saturn Vue
- June 18, 2015
- recovery stories
The Casper Wyoming Police Department discovered that a vehicle that they had impounded in connection with another criminal incident, which was being held as evidence, had been stolen from their impound lot. Investigating officers entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Saturn.
The next day Troopers with the Colorado State Patrol, Troop 3C – Fort Collins, picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Saturn with the LoJack Police Tracking Computers (PTC) that are installed in patrol vehicles and aircraft. Other CSP units were alerted and converged on the area where the hit was received near Loveland, Colorado. A K-9 Trooper spotted the Saturn, which was bearing fictitious Wyoming registration plates, on Crossroads Blvd at the intersection of I-25. A traffic stop was conducted by three Troopers and the driver was arrested without incident. A search of the stolen Saturn subsequent to the arrest disclosed a loaded .40 caliber handgun, numerous knives and drug paraphernalia.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Saturn Vue in December 2006 by Saturn of Visalia in California.