LoJack® System Helps California Highway Patrol Air 21 and Sacramento Sheriff’s Department Recover Stolen Chevrolet Traverse
- October 7, 2015
- recovery stories
The owners of a 2011 Chevrolet Traverse contacted the California Highway Patrol North Sacramento Area Office to report that their vehicle was stolen. The victim indicated that during the night a “Hot Prowl Burglar” entered his residence while they were asleep and stole numerous items, their wallets and took the car keys and fled with the victim’s car.
The CHP 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.
Just 30 minutes later flight officers on patrol in the CHP fixed wing unit Air 21 picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Chevy with the LoJack Police Tracking Computers (PTC) that are installed in patrol vehicles and aircraft. At the same time deputies with the Sacramento Sheriff’s Department also got the “hit.” Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, the flight officers assisted the deputies and tracked the Chevy to to the area of Andria and Elk Horn Blvd in Rio Linda. The deputies then observed the Chevy parked and occupied. The deputies approached and observed the driver actually counting money which turned out to be the money he stole from the victims earlier. The suspect was taken into custody without incident. The victims’ wallets and money were recovered and the Chevy was released back to the victims at the scene.
The suspect was booked for residential burglary and auto theft.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Chevrolet Traverse in October 2010 by John L. Sullivan Chevrolet in Roseville, California.