LoJack System Helps Miramar Police Department Recover a Stolen 2010 Toyota Prius
- November 6, 2017
- recovery stories
The owner of a 2010 Toyota Prius parked their car in their apartment complex parking lot before Hurricane Irma. With all that was going on, the owner must have inadvertently left the keys to the Toyota inside it before they evacuated their home. Upon arrival home they discovered their Toyota missing. The owner contacted the Collier County Sheriff’s Office to report their Toyota stolen. The responding deputy prepar
Recovered Prius being towed for safekeeping
ed 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 Toyota.
Shortly after activation while on routine patrol, a Miramar Police Department officer picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Prius on their on-board LoJack Police Tracking Computer (PTC) that are installed in law enforcement patrol vehicles, helicopters and aircraft. The officer began tracking the stolen Toyota by following the directional and audible cues on their PTC’s screen. The officer, along with their backup, located the 4-door sedan near East Missionwood Drive and East Missionwood Lane backed into a guest parking space in the parking lot of an apartment complex. The Toyota was recovered, removed from state and federal crime information computer systems by the entering agency and towed to the police impound yard for safekeeping.
The LoJack® System was installed in the 2010 Toyota Prius in September 2009 at Fort Myers Toyota, Inc. in Florida.