LoJack System Helps East Bay Regional Parks Police Department Helicopter Unit Recover Stolen 2017 Honda Accord
- June 22, 2017
- recovery stories
The owner of a 2017 Honda Accord contacted the California Highway Patrol to report that their vehicle had been stolen. The victim advised their Honda had been taken from in front of their residence on Sharon Drive in the Bay Point area of unincorporated Contra Costa County. The spare key had inadvertently been left in the Honda which they had reportedly purchased one day earlier.
The CHP verified the theft and entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Honda Accord.
A short while later officers from the East Bay Region Parks Police Department Helicopter Unit picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Honda Accord with the LoJack Police Tracking Computers (PTC) that are installed in patrol vehicles and aircraft. Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, the officers tracked the stolen Honda Accord to the public parking lot of the transit system located at Camino Pablo and Highway 24, in Orinda. The East Bay Regional Parks PD air unit directed in a CHP ground unit who located the Honda parked and abandoned in the lot.
The Honda was recovered by the CHP and released to the very grateful owner at the scene.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Honda Accord in March 2017 at Honda of El Cerrito in California.