LoJack® System Helps Philadelphia Police Department Recover Stolen Hyundai Genesis
- May 12, 2016
- recovery stories
The owner of a 2010 Hyundai Genesis relates that he and a friend were traveling from the State of Delaware to the southwest section of Philadelphia to meet with a female acquaintance. The Hyundai owner stated that when he drove to the prearranged meeting location, a second vehicle arrived and two males exited same. The males approached the complainant’s Hyundai and one of the males produced a handgun and demanded the complainant and his friend exit the vehicle. The male with the gun entered the complainant’s Hyundai and drove off with his accomplice following in the second vehicle.
The complainant called 911 and the Philadelphia Police Department Radio dispatched officers to the scene of the robbery. The complainant was interviewed and the area was surveyed for the subject vehicle and the perpetrators with negative results. A robbery/carjacking report was prepared and a detective from the Philadelphia PD Southwest Detective Division was assigned to investigate. The detective entered the stolen vehicle information into the police computer system which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Hyundai.
A short while later two Philadelphia PD officers assigned to the elite Highway Patrol Division picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Hyundai with the LoJack Police Tracking Computers (PTC) that are installed in patrol vehicles and aircraft. Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, the Highway Patrol officers tracked the Hyundai to a small side street in the southwest section of Philadelphia. The officers notified radio of their situation and their radio transmission was intercepted by a detective assigned to the Philadelphia PD Major Crimes Auto Squad. The detective proceeded to the location in an unmarked police vehicle and placed the Hyundai under surveillance. When the surveillance yielded negative results the Hyundai was confiscated and towed to the Philadelphia PD Tow Squad HQ to be processed for physical evidence.
As a result of investigative techniques employed by the police in this incident, suspect(s) have been identified and arrests are anticipated.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Hyundai Genesis in June 2010 at Hyundai of Turnersville.