LoJack® System Helps Riviera Beach Police Department Recover a Stolen 2017 Jaguar F-Pace
- March 20, 2017
- recovery stories
The owner of a 2017 Jaguar F-Pace parked their SUV in a shopping center parking lot at the corner of Lantana Road and Jog Road. Later that night when they returned to get in the Jaguar to go home they discovered their vehicle missing. They contacted the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office to report their Jaguar 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.
The next morning, an Auto Theft Task Force investigator picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen F-Pace sport utility vehicle on their on-board LoJack Police Tracking Computer (PTC). The investigator began tracking the stolen Jaguar by following the directional and audible cues on their PTC’s screen. The investigator, along with their backup from the Riviera Beach Police Department, located the sport utility vehicle inside of a company’s impound yard. Further investigation revealed that the tow company had been contracted to tow a Jaguar from in front of a restaurant located at Boynton Beach Boulevard and Lyons Road. The same restaurant has a location at Lantana Road and Jog Road. The tow truck driver must have assumed that the dispatcher meant the restaurant at Lantana and Jog Road. Upon arrival, the tow truck driver observed a Jaguar, “hooked it up” and brought it back to the tow yard. Upon being made aware that there was a stolen Jaguar in their yard, a tow company employee checked the vehicle identification number of the Jaguar inside the impound yard and realized that they had towed the wrong vehicle. The SUV was recovered, left at the police impound yard for safekeeping, and removed from state and federal crime information computer systems. The tow company then responded to the correct location to retrieve the original vehicle that they were supposed to have towed.
The LoJack® System was installed in the 2017 Jaguar F-Pace in August 2016 at Palm Beach Motor Cars Ltd in West Palm Beach, Florida. Vehicle that they originally towed and was reported stolen Vehicle that they were supposed to have towed and eventually did.