LoJack® System Helps Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Recover Stolen Chevrolet Silverado
- July 23, 2015
- recovery stories
The owners of a 2006 Chevrolet Silverado contacted the San Fernando Police Department to report their vehicle was stolen.
The San Fernando 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 Chevrolet.
Only six minutes later the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Air 7 picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Chevrolet with the LoJack Police Tracking Computers (PTC) that are installed in patrol vehicles and aircraft. Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, Air 7 tracked the Chevrolet to the 6000 block of Wilmington Avenue, Los Angeles.
As Air 7 flew overhead of the stolen Chevrolet they observed a male subject exit the parked vehicle and run eastbound through an industrial area. The subject scaled a fence and ran into a storage lot which was filled with BMW’s belonging to a dealership. Air 7 observed the subject hide in some bushes on the lot. Patrol deputies from the LASD Century station responded to the location. Directed by Air 7 the deputies located the subject. Upon questioning the subject admitted to knowing the Chevrolet was stolen. He stated two other subjects gave him the Chevrolet and that he was in route to a “chop shop” to deliver the vehicle when Air 7 flew overhead. The subject was arrested for receiving stolen property. When deputies drove to the stolen Chevrolet they found it running.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Chevrolet Silverado in November 2005 by Glendora Chevrolet in California.