LoJack® System Helps Pennsylvania State Police Auto Theft Task Force Recover Stolen Audi A-4
- March 15, 2016
- recovery stories
The owners of an Audi A-4 contacted the Carteret Police Department, New Jersey, to report that their vehicle had been stolen. A uniformed Carteret PD officer was dispatched to the scene to investigate the incident. The officer quickly arrived on location, interviewed the complainant and surveyed the area for the subject vehicle. When the Audi could not be located, the officer prepared a stolen vehicle report and arranged for the stolen vehicle information to be entered into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Audi.
Sometime later, investigators assigned to the Pennsylvania State Police Auto Theft Task Force were conducting unrelated investigations within the city of Reading, Pennsylvania. The investigators are assigned undercover police vehicles which are equipped LoJack Tracking Computers (PTC’s) and picked up the silent LoJack signal. Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, the investigators tracked the signal to a used car dealership lot in Reading, Pennsylvania. The investigators observed the Audi parked on the lot and recovered same.
The circumstances surrounding the theft and recovery of this Audi are currently under investigation by the members of the Pennsylvania State Police Auto Theft Unit in Reading, Pennsylvania.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Audi A-4 in September 2004 at Bell Saab Audi in Edison, New Jersey.