LoJack System Helps Nevada Highway Patrol Recover Stolen Toyota Yaris
- August 7, 2017
- recovery stories
The owners of a 2007 Toyota Yaris contacted the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department to report that their vehicle was stolen from the 5100 block of West Tropicana. The owners had parked the Toyota in the parking lot of their apartment complex and went inside for the night. The next morning they could not find their keys to the Toyota and realized they must have dropped them in the parking lot. They went out to find the Toyota missing.
A police officer 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.
A short while later troopers from the Nevada Highway Patrol picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Toyota with the LoJack Police Tracking Computers (PTCs) that are installed in patrol vehicles and aircraft.
Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, the troopers tracked the Toyota to the intersection of Warm Springs and Rogers where they found it being driven by a male. A felony car stop was conducted and the driver was safely taken into custody. An investigation was done and the driver was arrested for the theft of the Toyota and taken to jail. The Toyota was recovered and towed to the impound lot for safekeeping.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Toyota Yaris in May 2009 at Auto Nation Toyota in Cerritos, California.