LoJack® System Helps Philadelphia Police Department Recover Stolen Suzuki Motorcycle

The owner of a 2007 Suzuki motorcycle arrived home late in the evening and parked his motorcycle in front of his residence. The Suzuki owner reports that when he awoke the next morning he discovered that his motorcycle had been stolen. The owner called 911 and the Philadelphia Police Department Radio dispatched a uniformed officer to investigate the incident. The officer quickly arrived on location, interviewed the complainant and then surveyed the area for the stolen motorcycle. When the Suzuki could not be located, the officer prepared a stolen vehicle report and arranged for the stolen vehicle information to be entered into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Suzuki.

A short while later members of the elite Philadelphia PD Aviation Unit were on patrol over the City of Philadelphia in a police airship. The aviation officers reported to police radio that they had picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Suzuki 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 aviation officers tracked the signal to the area of Revere and Deveraux Streets in the northeast section of the city. The aviation officers advised police radio of the situation and marked patrol units arrived on location to assist. The aviation officers reduced the altitude of the aircraft and directed the officers on the ground to an object on the street secreted under a tarp. Uniformed officers removed the tarp and discovered a motorcycle matching the description of the stolen motorcycle. A detective assigned to the Philadelphia PD Major Crimes Auto Squad was nearby conducting an unrelated investigation and arrived on location to assist the ground officers. The auto squad detective positively identified the motorcycle as the vehicle reported stolen earlier in the day. The detective processed the recovered Suzuki for physical evidence and then made contact with the owner and advised him of the recovery. The owner arrived on location and recovered his motorcycle which he had purchased only two days earlier.

The LoJack® System was installed in the Suzuki GSXR600 in August 2007 at Columbia Motor Sports in Connecticut.