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LoJack® System Helps Law Enforcement Recover a Stolen 2016 Caterpillar 305.5 mini-excavator

  • November 8, 2016
  • recovery stories
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The operator of a 2016 Caterpillar 305.5 mini-excavator arrived at their Little Havana jobsite and discovered their construction equipment missing. Later in the day they contacted the Miami Police Department to report their machine stolen. The responding officer prepared a stolen report, theft affidavit and had the machine’s information entered into the state and federal crime information computers.

Immediately upon activation, a Miami-Dade Police Department Agricultural officer picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen mini-excavator on their on-board LoJack Police Tracking Computer (PTC). The officer began tracking the stolen machine by following the directional and audible cues on the PTC screen. The officer, along with their backup from the South District auto theft unit, located the mini-excavator inside of a gated farm just south of SW 200th Street and SW 157th Avenue in the Redlands. The construction equipment was recovered, released to the operator, who responded to the scene, and removed from state and federal crime information computer systems.

The LoJack® System was installed in the 2016 Caterpillar mini-excavator in April 2016 in Florida.

Printed from the LoJack Recovery Story Library.

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