LoJack® System Helps Chicago Police Department Recover Stolen Honda Ridgeline
- October 23, 2015
- recovery stories
The owner of a 2006 Honda Ridgeline contacted the Chicago Police Department to report that their vehicle was stolen from the 6200 block of N Hoyne Ave in Chicago’s West Rodgers Park neighborhood. The Chicago PD responded to the scene and after verifying the facts entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Honda.
Short time later officers from the Chicago PD School Unit and Rodgers Park District picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Honda with the LoJack Police Tracking Computers (PTC) that is installed in patrol vehicles and aircraft. Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, the Chicago PD officers discovered the Honda parked, locked and unoccupied in the 2100 block of West Arthur Ave.
The victim (a contractor) recovered all his tools from the bed of his Honda and two passports he had left in the Honda’s glovebox. The Honda was recovered undamaged before it could be stripped, cloned, or used in a crime and returned to a grateful owner.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Honda Ridgeline in June 2005 at Bay Ridge Honda in Brooklyn, NY.