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LoJack® System Helps the Berks County Auto Theft Task Force Recover Stolen Hyundai Santa Fe

  • August 19, 2015
  • recovery stories
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The owners of a 2001 Hyundai Santa Fe contacted the Wyomissing Police Department to report that their vehicle was stolen. The Wyomissing PD dispatched an officer to investigate the incident. The officer quickly arrived on location, interviewed the complainant and searched the area for the stolen Hyundai. When the Hyundai 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 Hyundai.

A short while later investigators assigned to the Berks County Auto Theft Task Force picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Hyundai 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 investigators tracked the signal to the area of 1000 Lancaster Avenue in Reading, Pennsylvania. The investigators observed the parked Hyundai and cautiously approached same. The Hyundai, which was found to be unoccupied, was confiscated for safekeeping.

This incident remains under investigation by the members of the Berks County Auto Theft Task Force.
The LoJack® System was installed in the 2001 Hyundai Santa Fe in August 2001 by Freehold Hyundai in Freehold, New Jersey.


Printed from the LoJack Recovery Story Library.

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