LoJack® System Helps Bloomfield Police Department Recover Classic 1997 Porsche Boxster
- July 16, 2015
- recovery stories
The owner of a classic car storage garage called the Bloomfield Police Department to report someone had entered their storage facility on the 1200 block of N Park Ave in Bloomfield and stole the keys and a 1997 Porsche Boxster. The Bloomfield PD responded to the scene and after verifying facts as presented entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Porsche.
The next morning a vehicle equipped with a LoJack Police Tracking Computer (PTC) picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Porsche with the PTC that are installed in patrol vehicles and aircraft. The Porsche was tracked to the 1400 block of W Peach Road in Pell Lake, Wisconsin, in Bloomington Township. The Porsche was located in a corn field behind a house and corpse of trees at that location. It was observed from the road a double row of corn had been flattened where the Porsche had been driven on the edge of cornfield to the cover of the trees behind the farmhouse. The Porsche was completely hidden from view.
The Porsche Boxster was recovered the day after it was reported stolen with no damage other than minor scratches received when it was driven through the field. The Porsche Boxster was returned before it could be stripped, cloned or damaged. The owner was very grateful to LoJack for the recovery of his vehicle and very glad he had purchased LoJack when he had purchased the Porsche. The Bloomfield PD continues the investigation into this vehicle theft.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Porsche Boxster in April 1997 by Motor Werks of Barrington in Barrington, Illinois.