LoJack® System Helps Lakewood Police Department Recover Stolen Ford F350
- August 29, 2017
- recovery stories
The owners of a 2005 Ford F350 contacted the Adams County Sheriff’s Office to report that their vehicle had been stolen from their home during the night.
A deputy verified the theft and had the vehicle information entered into the state and federal crime computers. This routine action on the part of law enforcement automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Ford pickup truck.
Less than 40-minutes later officers with the Denver, Lakewood and Wheat Ridge Police Departments were picking up the silent LoJack signal coming from the stolen Ford with the LoJack Police Tracking Computers (PTCs) that are installed in patrol vehicles and aircraft.
Based on information from the PTCs, officers were alerted to the stolen Ford in the vicinity of East Central Lakewood. A Lakewood PD Agent soon spotted the stolen truck at a gas station near S Pierce and W Alameda. The Ford was occupied by two passengers and the engine was running while parked at the gas pumps.
As officers approached the two passengers fled on foot but were caught and taken into custody. Another two suspects who were near-by fled on foot and escaped.
It was determined by the police that the truck had been used by the suspects in a least one recent car-prowling incident in South Lakewood.
Investigators with the CMATT Auto Theft Task Force are conducting the follow up investigation.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Ford F350 in 2005 at Sill TerHar Ford in Broomfield, Colorado, at the request of the current owners.