LoJack® System Helps Law Enforcement Recover A Stolen Toyota 4-Runner
- March 28, 2016
- recovery stories
The owner of a 2002 Toyota 4-Runner sport utility vehicle discovered their SUV missing. They contacted the Miami-Dade Police Department to report their vehicle 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.
Immediately upon activation, while transporting a prisoner to the county jail, a Miami-Dade PD officer picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen 4-Runner on their on-board LoJack Police Tracking Computer (PTC). Upon hearing the information about the stolen 4-Runner, a Miami-Dade PD K-9 headed in the direction of where the other officer was located. The K-9 officer began tracking the stolen 4-Runner by following the directional and audible cues on the PTC screen. The officer located the sport utility vehicle abandoned on N.W. 2nd Street just east of N.W. 23rd Avenue. As the 4-Runner was located in Miami PD jurisdiction, they responded and recovered the vehicle. The sport utility vehicle towed to the police impound yard for safekeeping and removed from state and federal crime information computer systems.
The LoJack® System was installed in the 2002 Toyota 4-Runner in September 2002 at UAG Palm Beach Toyota in West Palm Beach, Florida.