LoJack® System Helps Houston Police Department Recover Stolen 2003 Mercedes Benz
- March 15, 2016
- recovery stories
The owners of a 2003 Mercedes Benz contacted the Houston Police Department to report that their vehicle was stolen from their apartment complex parking space in the 7700 block of Airport Blvd.
The Houston 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 Mercedes Benz.
A short while later officers from the Houston PD picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Mercedes Benz 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 an apartment complex on Yellowstone and Sherwood. As the officer approached he observed a subject using his phone to take a selfie of himself and a female standing next to the stolen Mercedes. When the officer approached the subjects the male stated “I had nothing to do with this vehicle.” The officer asked what he meant and he stated his uncle told him to sell the Mercedes for him. The owner of the Mercedes is a female and stated she does not have any relatives with the name of this suspect and the Mercedes was not for sale. The officer arrested the male and as he was being placed in the patrol car the subject asked the officer if he could get his two pair of shoes and pant from the trunk of the stolen Mercedes. The officer opened the trunk and found the described articles and tagged then into evidence. The female was a fourteen year old runaway and was released to Child Protective Services. The Mercedes was towed to the Houston PD impound lot for processing.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Mercedes Benz in May 2003 at Mercedes of Houston Greenway in Texas.