LoJack® System Helps Valencia County Sheriff’s Office Recover a Stolen GMC Yukon
- December 11, 2015
- recovery stories
The owner of a 2002 GMC Yukon contacted the Albuquerque Police Department to report that their vehicle was stolen. The owner stated they were warming up the engine in the cold early morning hours while parked in the parking lot of the apartment complex where unknown offenders took their GMC. The theft occurred in the area of Comanche and Carlisle in the City of Albuquerque. The Albuquerque 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 GMC.
Deputies with the Valencia County Sheriff’s Office were on patrol driving marked units equipped with LoJack Police Tracking Computers (PTC) and picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen GMC. Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, the GMC was located in the area of Meadow Lake Road and High Deal Road in Los Lunas. The VCSO deputies observed the GMC parked in a residential yard behind a single wide trailer. The deputies made contact with the occupants of the residence and took several subjects into custody. Through investigation the deputies identified the driver of the stolen GMC; he was arrested and booked into jail. Deputies recovered the GMC and had it towed from the scene for safekeeping to be released to the owner at a later date.
The LoJack® System was installed in the GMC Yukon in June 2002 at Showcase Pontiac GMC Mazda in Phoenix, Arizona.