LoJack® System Helps Multiple Law Enforcement Agencies Recover a Stolen Honda CR-V
- April 13, 2016
- recovery stories
The owner of a 2000 Honda CR-V called the Albuquerque Police Department to report their vehicle was stolen. The Albuquerque 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 Honda.
A short time later, a Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Department Sergeant picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Honda with the LoJack Police Tracking Computers (PTC) that are installed in their patrol vehicles. The Sergeant was in Edgewood, New Mexico, and requested his dispatcher to call the LoJack Call Center for additional assistance and assistance from other law enforcement agencies in the area. An Albuquerque PD officer was enroute to briefing when he picked up the LoJack signal. The New Mexico State Police officers equipped with LoJack PTC’s were also dispatched to the area to assist along with deputies from the Torrance County Sheriff’s Office. Following the audible and directional cues from the PTC, the Honda was tracked into a residential area, connected only by dirt roads, to the area of V-Hill Road and Gober Road; nearly two miles south of Interstate 40 (as the crow flies). The Honda was located parked in a residential yard with two occupants inside of the vehicle. Officers and deputies, to include the Sheriff of Torrance County, made contact with the subjects and took them into custody. It appeared the subjects were removing parts from the stolen Honda for a similar Honda parked in the yard. The Torrance County SO assumed primary case responsibility and the investigation is on-going. The stolen Honda was recovered and towed from the scene for safekeeping. The offender’s Honda was towed from the scene pending a search warrant.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Honda CR-V in March 2004 at Curry Honda Subaru Isuzu in Chicopee, Massachusetts.