LoJack® System Helps Philadelphia Police Department Recover Stolen Jeep Commander
- January 19, 2016
- recovery stories
The owners of a 2006 Jeep Commander contacted the Philadelphia Police Department to report that their vehicle had been stolen from the area of West Cumberland Street in the northern section of Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Police Radio dispatched a uniformed officer who quickly arrived on location and interviewed the Jeep owner. The officer then surveyed the area for the stolen Jeep with negative results. The officer then prepared a stolen vehicle report and arranged to have the stolen vehicle information entered into the state and federal crime computers, which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Jeep.
A short while later officers from the Philadelphia PD 39th District picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Jeep with the LoJack Police Tracking Computers (PTC) that are installed in patrol vehicles and aircraft. Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, the officers tracked the signal to a rented garage in the area of Queen Lane and interviewed the owner of the garage. The owner of the garage consented to the officer’s request to open the garage door and the Jeep was subsequently located inside the garage. The Jeep was confiscated for safekeeping and the owner of the garage provided the officers with the identification of the person renting the garage. The assigned officers notified the Philadelphia PD Major Crimes Auto Squad and a follow up investigation is expected to result in an arrest.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Jeep Commander in August 2008 at Warnock Dodge Jeep in East Hanover, New Jersey.