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LoJack System Helps Houston Police Department and Texas Department of Public Safety Recover Two Stolen Kubota Mini Excavators

  • August 7, 2017
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The owners of two (2) Kubota Mini Excavators contact the Houston Police Department and filed a theft report. Both units were stolen sometime over the weekend and were found missing from the construction site located in the area of Hull and Kelso streets in Houston.

The Houston PD verified the theft and entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Kubota mini excavators.

A short while later, the Texas Department of Public Safety air unit 102 picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen mini excavators 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 air crew located the strongest signal coming from a wooded area near the intersection of West Fuqua and Cottingham streets in Houston. Unit 102 gave the location to the Houston PD patrol units who then began to track the stolen excavators. The units were tracked to a wooded area in the 5000 block of Schurmier Road where they were hidden. The owner was contacted and the excavators were released to them. This is an ongoing investigation by the Houston PD Major Offenders.
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Houston Police Department On the Scene – IR camera from Air Ship

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Mini Excavators Recovered

The LoJack® System was installed in the Kubota Mini Excavators in December 2015 and June 2016 at Commercial / Direct Sales.

 


Printed from the LoJack Recovery Story Library.

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