LoJack® System Helps Utah Motor Vehicle Enforcement Division Recover Stolen Honda Accord
- July 21, 2015
- recovery stories
Just after 5 O’clock in the morning the owners of a Honda Accord contacted the Unified Police Department to report that their vehicle had been stolen from the parking lot of a discount department store in Midvale.
A police officer verified the theft and entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Honda.
A short time later a Trooper with the Utah Highway Patrol picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Honda with the LoJack Police Tracking Computer (PTC) installed in his patrol vehicle. The Trooper was on an emergency call and could not divert to the stolen car. He did however notify area agencies of the hit and a short time later an Investigator with the Utah Motor Vehicle Enforcement Division also picked up the hit with the PTC in his patrol vehicle. Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, the Investigator tracked the Honda to a concealed parking lot in an industrial area about 7-miles to the north of the theft location in South Salt Lake City/Murray area.
The suspects must have been scared away by the approaching police vehicles in the area as the tools they had brought with them to steal the wheels and tires from the Honda were abandoned on the pavement in their rush to get away.
The Honda was recovered undamaged and returned to the very happy owner.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Honda Accord in April 1993 in New Jersey at the request of the vehicle’s original owner.