LoJack System Helps Lehigh County Auto Theft Task Force Recover Stolen Honda CRV
- June 22, 2017
- recovery stories
The owner of a Honda CRV recently discovered that the vehicle had had been stolen from the area of his residence on Green Street in Allentown. The Honda owner called 911 and the Allentown Police Department Radio dispatched a uniformed officer to investigate the incident. The officer quickly arrived on location, interviewed the complainant and then surveyed the area for the Honda. When the officer was unable to locate the Honda a stolen vehicle report was prepared and provided to the Allentown Police data center. The stolen vehicle information was then entered into the state and federal crime computers, which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Honda.
The Lehigh County Auto Theft Task members monitor any and all stolen vehicle activity within their jurisdiction. The unit supervisor became aware that the Honda was reported stolen and that a LoJack activation code was now being broadcast. The members of the task force are assigned undercover police vehicles equipped with LoJack Police Stolen Vehicle Tracking Computers (PTC’s). A short while later, the highly trained auto theft investigators picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Honda with the LoJack Police Tracking Computers (PTC). Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, the auto theft investigators tracked the signal to the area of Lumber Street. The investigators reported that the LoJack PTC’s directed them to a closed and locked garage on Lumber Street. The PTC’s pointed directly at the garage door with full signal strength. The investigators gathered the information they would need to prepare a search and seizure warrant for the location and then left the garage under police guard. The investigators returned a short time later with a valid, signed and sealed search warrant. The garage door was opened and inside the garage the investigators discovered the Honda CRV which had been reported stolen earlier.
The stolen Honda was confiscated and processed for physical evidence while the Allentown PD was advised that the vehicle had been recovered. The owner was notified and the stolen vehicle alarm was cancelled.
This incident remains under investigation by the Lehigh County Auto Theft Task Force and arrest(s) are anticipated at the conclusion of said investigation.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Honda CRV in April 1999 at Paramus Honda in New Jersey.