LoJack System Helps Los Angeles Police Department Recover Stolen Toyota Solara
- May 30, 2017
- recovery stories
The owners of a 2006 Toyota Solara contacted the Los Angeles Police Department Foothill Division to report that their vehicle was stolen by unknown suspects. Officers verified the theft and entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Toyota Solara.
Six (6) minutes later officers from the LAPD Van Nuys Division picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Toyota Solara with the LoJack Police Tracking Computers (PTC) that are installed in patrol vehicles and aircraft. The officers notified the LAPD Air 10 flight officers who responded to the area of Sylvan and Hazeltine. Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, Air-10 tracked the Toyota to Victory Blvd and Sepulveda where they observed the vehicle pulling into a bank parking lot. They then observed two female adults exit the Toyota and enter into the bank. Responding officers, including SWAT officers, surrounded the bank fearing a possible bank robbery and secured the area. Eventually the two suspects were identified and were arrested. The suspects apparently had entered the bank to conduct their business and not rob it. The suspects were arrested and later booked for the theft of the Toyota Solara. The Toyota was later released to the owner.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Toyota Solara in September 2005 at Hamer Toyota in Mission Hills, California.