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LoJack System Helps Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office Recover a Stolen 2004 BMW 745i

  • August 18, 2017
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The owner of a 2004 BMW 745i parked their car in front of their home inadvertently leaving the doors open and a key to the car inside. Upon awakening in the morning, they discovered the BMW missing. They contacted the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office to report their vehicle stolen. The responding deputy prepared a stolen vehicle report, theft affidavit and had the vehicle’s information entered into the state and federal crime information computers which automatically activates the LoJack® System concealed in the BMW 745i.

Shortly after activation while on routine patrol, a Palm Beach County SO deputy picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen 745i on their on-board LoJack Police Tracking Computer (PTC), that are installed in law enforcement patrol vehicles, helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. The deputy began tracking the stolen BMW by following the directional and audible cues on their PTC’s screen. The deputy, along with their backup, located the 4-door sedan abandoned in a parking lot in the 1200 block of Lakeview Drive East, Royal Palm Beach, before the reporting deputy had enough time to complete their report. The BMW was recovered, removed from state and federal crime information computer systems by the entering agency and towed to the police impound yard for safekeeping.

At another location in Lake Park another deputy was on the scene of another recovery of a vehicle. The deputy was interviewing a suspect and was given consent to search the premises. Upon completion of the search, the deputy discovered evidence that the suspect and their accomplice had stolen not only the vehicle they were recovering, but the above BMW, a 2016 Ram pickup truck stolen in Broward County and another vehicle that they drove to Broward County in. The two suspects were arrested and transported to the district Palm Beach County SO substation for processing before being locked up.

The LoJack® System was installed in the 2004 BMW 745i in January 2004 at Tischer Auto Park Audi Porsche in Silver Spring, Maryland.


Printed from the LoJack Recovery Story Library.

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