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LoJack® System Helps Philadelphia Police Department Recover a Stolen Nissan Versa

  • February 27, 2017
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The owners of a 2012 Nissan Versa contacted the Gloucester Township Police Department, New Jersey, to report that their vehicle had been stolen in the area of their residence.  The Gloucester Township PD dispatched a uniformed officer to investigate the incident. The officer quickly arrived on location, interviewed the Nissan owner and then surveyed the area the subject vehicle. When the Nissan could not be located, the assigned officer prepared a stolen vehicle report and arranged for the vehicle information to be entered into state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Nissan.

A short while later officers assigned to the elite Philadelphia Police Department Aviation Unit were on patrol over the city of Philadelphia in a police airship equipped with a LoJack Police Tracking Computer (PTC).  The aviation officers tracked the LoJack signal and began to reduce the altitude of the airship until the signal was isolated to the area of 9th and Walnut Streets. The aviation officers informed radio that the signal was being broadcast in an area where numerous multi-level parking garages are located. Two members of the Philadelphia PD Major Crimes Auto Squad were in the area conducting an unrelated investigation and monitoring the police radio. The auto squad investigators informed police radio that they would assist the aviation officers in locating the stolen Nissan. The Major Crimes Auto Squad Investigators arrived in the area of 9th and Walnut and intercepted the LoJack signal. The highly trained investigators quickly isolated the signal to a particular multi-level parking garage and entered same. The investigators conducted a floor by floor LoJack electronic sweep of the structure and subsequently located the parked and unoccupied stolen Nissan.

The auto squad investigators confiscated the Nissan and had same towed to their HQ where the vehicle will be processed for physical evidence.  A police message was then transmitted to the Gloucester Township PD, informing them that the Nissan had been recovered and that they could notify the owner and cancel the stolen vehicle alarm.

This incident remains under investigation by the members of the Philadelphia PD Major Crimes Auto Squad.

The LoJack® System was installed in the Nissan Versa in September 2012 at Nissan of Turnersville in New Jersey.


Printed from the LoJack Recovery Story Library.

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