LoJack® System Helps Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office Recover Stolen 2011 Wacker-Neuson Light Tower
- October 13, 2015
- recovery stories
The proprietors of a self-storage business opened a storage unit that had gone into default for non-payment of rent. Inside the unit was a large piece of construction equipment. The garage was locked and secured pending further developments.
Inquires made by storage facility disclosed the likely owner of the equipment to be a rental company. Managers of the rental equipment business determined that the equipment was missing from their inventory. They reported the theft to the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office. An investigator had the vehicle information entered into the state and federal crime computers. This routine action automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the trailer mounted light tower.
Officers with the Aurora Police Department on routine patrol picked up the silent LoJack signal coming from the stolen Wacker 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 officers tracked the light tower to the self-storage business. When a search warrant was obtained by the ACSO investigator the garage was opened and the stolen light-tower recovered. In addition to the light tower there were two snowmobiles in the garage, both of which were stolen in Boulder, Colorado.
The suspects have been identified.
Each of the vehicles was undamaged to the great satisfaction of the owners.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Wacker-Neuson light tower in 2011 via Commercial Sales.