LoJack® System Helps Law Enforcement Recover A Stolen Lexus IS-250
- March 28, 2016
- recovery stories
The owner of a 2008 Lexus IS-250 4-door sedan needed some work done on their car. They found someone to do the work and gave them their Lexus. After five months the owner returned to where there Lexus was left and found that their car was nowhere to be found. The owner contacted the Miramar Police Department to report their Lexus stolen. The responding officer prepared a stolen vehicle report, theft affidavit and had the vehicle’s information entered into the state and federal crime information computers.
Later in the day, while on routine patrol, a Miami Gardens Police Department officer picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen IS-250 on their on-board LoJack Police Tracking Computer (PTC). The officer began tracking the stolen Lexus by following the directional and audible cues on the PTC screen. The officer, along with their backup, located the 4-door sedan parked in front of a restaurant in a strip shopping center near N.W. 199th Street and N.W. 27th Avenue. The officers detained the occupants of the Lexus until further information was ascertained. The incident concluded with the occupants of the Lexus being released and the vehicle being recovered, towed to the police impound yard for safekeeping and further investigation, and removed from state and federal crime information computer systems.
The LoJack® System was installed in the 2008 Lexus IS-250 in January 2008 at Prestige Lexus Inc., in Ramsey, New Jersey.