LoJack® System Helps Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department VIPER Recover Stolen Honda Accord
- November 16, 2015
- recovery stories
The owner of a 2000 Honda Accord contacted the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department to report the vehicle was stolen. The LVMPD verified the theft and entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Honda.
Within under an hour after the activation, officers and detectives from the LVMPD and the VIPER team picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Honda with the LoJack Police Tracking Computers (PTC) that are installed in patrol vehicles and undercover vehicles. Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, the VIPER team tracked the Honda to a residential neighborhood but could not visibly see the Honda. The VIPER team utilized a LoJack hand-held tracker and determined the Honda was concealed inside of a closed residential garage. The VIPER team requested and obtained a search warrant for the garage making contact with several subjects. One subject was found to have a warrant and another subject was charged with possession of a controlled substance (meth), possession of a stolen vehicle and operating a chop shop. Both subjects were arrested and booked. The Honda was located inside of the garage, recovered, towed for safekeeping and will be released back to the owner.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Honda Accord in January 2001 via California Direct Customer Sales.