LoJack® System Helps Anaheim Police Department Recover Stolen Lexus ES330
- November 3, 2015
- recovery stories
The owners of a 2006 Lexus ES330 contacted the Fullerton Police Department to report their vehicle was stolen. The Fullerton PD verified the theft and entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Lexus.
A short while later officers from the Anaheim Police Department picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Lexus 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 Lexus to the 1800 block of Glenoaks in the city of Anaheim. The Lexus was parked in front of a garage with a female standing inside the open driver door with the engine running. The license plates to the Lexus had been changed to cold plates. Two other subjects were standing in front of the Lexus. All subjects were detained and questioned by the officers. The female at the driver door told the officers that a female she hardly knew let her use the Lexus. The female also told her to put the cold plates on the Lexus because they were new plates for the vehicle. Upon further questioning, the female suspect told the officers she lied about a female giving her the Lexus but that a gang member she knew gave her the vehicle. The female refused to identify the gang member. The female suspect was arrested and later found to be in possession of drugs. The Lexus was recovered.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Lexus ES330 in May 2006 at Jim Falk Lexus in Beverly Hills, CA.