LoJack® System Helps North Carolina DMV License & Theft Bureau Recover Stolen Acura RDX
- July 20, 2015
- recovery stories
The owner of a 2007 Acura RDX contacted the Wrightsville Beach Police Department to report that their vehicle was stolen during the night from Causeway Drive.
The Wrightsville Beach PD verified the theft and entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Acura.
A short while later an Inspector of the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles License and Theft Bureau picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Acura 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 Inspector tracked the Acura to a business park on Ogden Business Lane located off US 17 business in the northern sector of Wilmington.
The Acura was found to have the public vehicle identification number plate in the windshield covered, cold plated by another unreported stolen registration plate of another Acura but not the same year model, and all doors were locked. Witnesses at the recovery location provided information the Acura had been parked there the evening before. No suspect(s) identity was known. There was no exterior damage noted by the Inspector.
The Acura was towed and stored to allow notification to the owner of the recovery and gain entrance to the locked vehicle for any evidence that might aid a further investigation.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Acura RDX in February 2007 by Tischer Acura in Laurel, Maryland.