LoJack® System Helps Los Angeles Police Department Recover Stolen Chevrolet Tahoe
- September 10, 2015
- recovery stories
The owners of a 2006 Chevrolet Tahoe contacted the Baldwin Park Police Department to report that their vehicle was stolen. Officers 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.
A short while later officers from the Los Angeles Police Department Hollenbeck Division 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, they tracked the Chevrolet to 3500 block of East 8th St and observed the vehicle pull out of a parking spot right in front of the Officers. Back up was requested as the officers followed the stolen Tahoe. As the back-up units arrived, a felony traffic stop was initiated and the driver was detained without further incident. The suspect driver, a female, was arrested and later booked for driving a motor vehicle without owner’s permission, a Felony. The undamaged Chevrolet was stored for safe keeping and later released to the victim.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Chevrolet Tahoe in January 2006 by Felix Chevrolet Cadillac in Los Angeles, California.