LoJack® System Helps Fresno HEAT ATTF Recover Stolen GMC
- January 6, 2016
- recovery stories
The owners of a GMC Yukon contacted the Fresno Police Department to report that their vehicle was stolen during the night. The Fresno 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.
About 20 minutes after the LoJack was activated, an investigator with the Fresno HEAT, the Fresno County Auto Theft Task Force, picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen GMC with the LoJack Police Tracking Computer (PTC) that are installed in patrol vehicles and aircraft. Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, the investigator tracked the GMC to an apartment complex near Marks and Gettysburg avenues in Fresno. The GMC was found unoccupied and parked in a parking lot. The Task Force members conducted surveillance on the GMC; within 30 minutes an adult male suspect approached and entered the vehicle. The suspect was immediately detained. The suspect was questioned and told investigators that he had been out all night burglarizing vehicles for valuables. When he entered this GMC he found a valet key in the glove box and decided to steal it. The suspect was arrested for vehicle theft and possession of stolen property. Additional charges of vehicle burglary are pending.
The GMC was recovered intact and undamaged; it was released to the owner at the scene.
The LoJack® System was installed in the GMC Yukon in July 2005 at Tustin Buick Pontiac in California.