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LoJack® System Helps the New Jersey State Police Recover a Stolen 2008 Komatsu Excavator

  • November 24, 2015
  • recovery stories
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The owner of a 2008 Komatsu Excavator contacted the New Jersey State Police, Perryville Station, to report that over the weekend their excavator was stolen from a construction site along Interstate 78.

The New Jersey State Police verified the theft and entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Komatsu Excavator.

A short while later, detectives from the New Jersey State Police Auto Theft Unit, picked up the silent LoJack signal coming from the stolen Komatsu with the LoJack Police Tracking Computers (PTC) that are installed in their patrol vehicles.  Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, the detectives tracked the excavator to a storage lot on Sherman Ave., in the City of Newark. The excavator was recovered undamaged and the investigation is continuing.

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The LoJack® System was installed in the 2008 Komatsu Excavator in June 2008 at a Commercial Customer in New Jersey.


Printed from the LoJack Recovery Story Library.

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