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LoJack® System Helps University Place and Tacoma Police Department Recover a Stolen John Deere Mini Excavator

  • June 22, 2015
  • recovery stories
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The owners of this John Deere mini excavator were using it at a construction project located in the 21800 block of 102nd Place SE in Kent.  Sometime during the night the machine was stolen. The theft was reported to the Kent Police Department. The report was verified and they entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the John Deere.
That same afternoon officers from the Tacoma and University Place Police Department received the silent LoJack signal from the stolen John Deere on the LoJack Police Tracking Computer (PTC) that are installed in patrol vehicles and aircraft.

They tracked the signal to the area of 15th Street and Sprague Avenue in Tacoma where the moving John Deere was observed on a flatbed trailer.  The occupied towing vehicle was stopped and the driver taken into custody for questioning.  The John Deere was impounded for safekeeping.

The GPS unit on the machine had been disabled, but the thief did not locate the LoJack.

The LoJack® System was installed in the machine in July 2007 via Commercial Sales.


Printed from the LoJack Recovery Story Library.

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