LoJack® System Helps Denver Police Department Recover Stolen Cadillac Escalade
- March 15, 2016
- recovery stories
The owners of a Cadillac Escalade were confronted at an intersection by a gunman who fired a shot and demanded they surrender their vehicle. They were not physically injured and complied with the gunman who sped away in their Cadillac. The owners immediately contacted the Denver Police Department and reported the armed robbery/carjacking.
A police officer verified the theft and had the vehicle information entered into the state and federal crime computers which immediately and automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Cadillac.
Just minutes later several Denver PD officers, as well as officers from other adjoin jurisdictions, were picking up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Cadillac with the LoJack Police Tracking Computers (PTCs) that are installed in patrol vehicles and aircraft.
Following the directional and audible cues from the PTCs, the Denver PD officers closed in on the area of the signal only to find that the suspect had crashed the Cadillac prior to the police arrival in the 2700 block of North Madison Street and fled the scene.
This offense remains under investigation by the Denver Police Department.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Cadillac Escalade in 2007 at Rickenbaugh Cadillac Volvo in Denver, Colorado, at the request of the current owners.