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LoJack® System Helps Philadelphia Police Department Recover Stolen Nissan Maxima

  • August 4, 2015
  • recovery stories
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The owner of a 2005 Nissan Altima notified the Philadelphia Police Department that he had entered a convenience store in Northeast Philadelphia and left his vehicle running. The owner further reported that when he exited the convenience store, he discovered that his Nissan had been stolen.  The Philadelphia PD dispatched an officer to investigate the incident. The officer quickly arrived on location, interviewed the complainant and searched the area for the stolen Nissan. When the Nissan could not be located, the officer prepared a stolen vehicle report and arranged for the vehicle information to be entered into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Nissan.

A short while later two members of the elite Highway Patrol Unit picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Nissan 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 Highway Patrol officers tracked the signal to a rear alley in the area of Akron Street in Northeast Philadelphia. The officers isolated the signal to a series of residential garages on the block and then notified the Philadelphia Police Major Crimes Auto Squad. An investigator assigned to the Major Crimes Auto Squad arrived on location with specialized LoJack tracking equipment designed to isolate a LoJack signal. The Major Crimes Auto Squad investigator quickly determined that the signal was originating from a specific garage attached to a residential dwelling. A thorough and complete investigation was conducted which resulted in the owner of the residence arriving on location and signing a consent to search document and volunteering to unlock and open the garage. Inside the garage police discovered the apparently undamaged stolen Nissan Maxima.

This incident remains under investigation by the members of the Philadelphia Police Major Crimes Auto Squad and arrests are imminent.

The LoJack® System was installed in the Nissan Altima in June 2005 by Hilltop Nissan in East Hanover, New Jersey.


Printed from the LoJack Recovery Story Library.

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