LoJack System Helps Colorado State Patrol Recover Stolen Land Rover Range Rover
- October 31, 2017
- recovery stories
The owners of a 2010 Land Rover contacted the Denver Police Department to report that their vehicle had been stolen from a parking lot near 2nd Avenue and Broadway.
A police officer 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 Land Rover.
Less than an hour later troopers with the Colorado State Patrol were picking up the silent LoJack signal coming from the stolen SUV with the LoJack Police Tracking Computers (PTCs) that are installed in patrol vehicles and aircraft.
Following the directional and audible cues from the PTCs, these troopers tracked the Land Rover to a shopping center parking lot near Aurora Parkway and Smokey Hill Road.
The stolen Land Rover was stopped and two suspects arrested one who attempted to run from the vehicle.
Charges include; Aggravated Motor Vehicle Theft, Obstructing a Police Officer, possession of drug paraphernalia, methamphetamine and heroin. Also one suspect was wanted on an outstanding Larceny warrant. Valuable property was missing from the stolen Land Rover that has not yet been recovered but the owners were very pleased to have gotten their vehicle back quickly and undamaged.
The LoJack® System had been installed in the Land Rover in Florida, seven-years earlier, at Hennessy Land Rover Buckhead in Atlanta, Georgia, at the request of a previous owner of the SUV.