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LoJack® System Helps Law Enforcement Recover A Stolen 1998 Dodge Caravan

  • May 12, 2016
  • recovery stories
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The owner of a 1998 Dodge Caravan van came out of their home and discovered their van missing. They contacted the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office to report their vehicle stolen. The responding deputy 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, in route to police headquarters, a North Palm Beach Police Department officer picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Caravan on their on-board LoJack Police Tracking Computer (PTC). The officer began tracking the stolen Dodge by following the directional and audible cues on the PTC screen. The officer, along with their backup from the Palm Beach County SO, located the van in the driveway of an abandoned mobile home inside of a mobile home park just south of Southern Boulevard on Military Trail, within unincorporated Palm Beach County. The van was recovered, 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 1998 Dodge Caravan in June 1998 at Dadeland Dodge in Miami, Florida.


Printed from the LoJack Recovery Story Library.

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