LoJack® System Helps Florida Highway Patrol Recover a Stolen 2015 Toyota Corolla
- March 9, 2017
- recovery stories
The owner of a 2015 Toyota Corolla arrived home and discovered their car missing from the driveway of their home where they last saw it. The keys were left on a key rack in the kitchen but were now missing. According to relatives, no one took the keys. The owner contacted the Orange County Sheriff’s Office to report their Toyota 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 that morning, while on routine patrol, a Florida Highway Patrol trooper picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Corolla on their on-board LoJack Police Tracking Computer (PTC) while southbound on the Florida Turnpike, in the area of Central Florida Parkway. The trooper began tracking the stolen Corolla by following the directional and audible cues on their PTC’s screen. The trooper exited the Turnpike and was now joined by another trooper, whose patrol car was also equipped with a PTC. The troopers triangulated the stolen Corolla’s signal, locating the vehicle abandoned in a residential community off of Blackmoor Drive and Chisbury Drive. The Corolla 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 2015 Toyota Corolla in January 2015 at Central Florida Toyota in Orlando.