LoJack® System Helps Dallas Police Department Recover a Stolen Dodge Pickup
- January 5, 2016
- recovery stories
The owner of a Dodge pickup contacted the Dallas Police Department to report that his vehicle was stolen. The owner parked his Dodge in his apartment parking lot and when he returned to it, found it missing.
The Dallas 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 Dodge.
Later, the Dallas PD helicopter picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Dodge with the LoJack Police Tracking Computer (PTC) that is installed in their helicopter. Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, the helicopter tracked the stolen Dodge and observed it traveling in the 300 block of S. St Augustine Road. The suspects in the stolen Dodge became aware of the police helicopter and started driving at a high rate of speed. They pulled into a store parking lot and the man and woman suspects inside the stolen Dodge jumped out and ran into the store. The helicopter directed patrol officers to the store parking lot. The helicopter then observed the two suspects walk out of the store holding hands in the hopes that no one would recognize them. Upon seeing the patrol officers, the male suspect fled on foot. He was apprehended and arrested. The woman suspect was also arrested. The Dodge pickup had damage to the steering column.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Dodge pickup in October 1998 at Bankston Dodge in Grand Prairie, Texas.