LoJack® System Helps Orange County Sheriff’s Department Recover Stolen Ford F350
- March 7, 2016
- recovery stories
The owners of a 2008 Ford F350 truck contacted the Alamance County Sheriff’s Department to report that their vehicle was stolen as a result of a known company employee’s failure to return the truck. The company operates a landscaping business. The employee had been given use of the truck during business hours however when the owner of the company unexpectedly died, the employee was asked to bring the truck to the business office but failed to return the truck.
The Alamance County SD verified the theft and entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Ford truck.
A short while later deputies from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department were provided information concerning the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Ford which had been picked up 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 deputies were taken to Atkins Road in the northwestern part of Orange County, about (10) miles from the victim’s business location. The Ford truck was covered in mud and signs at the recovery site indicated the truck had been hauled away from wherever the truck had been stuck and dumped on the roadside in this very rural, sparsely populated area.
The suspect has a known history of vehicle larceny and a trucking company in the area had a theft of a dump truck the night prior to the report theft of this truck. An investigation continues to try to determine if the suspect can be tied to both vehicle thefts by latent evidence.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Ford F350 in February 2008 for a commercial/residential building material sales company in Atlanta, Georgia.