LoJack® System Helps Lakewood Police Department Recover Stolen Honda Civic
- December 27, 2017
- recovery stories
The owner of a Honda Civic loaned her vehicle to her boyfriend for a short period of time but he then refused to bring it back. After a few days of waiting she contacted the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office and filed an auto theft report. A deputy 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 Honda.
A short while later officers with the Denver and Lakewood Police Departments picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Honda with the LoJack Police Tracking Computers (PTCs) that are installed in patrol vehicles and aircraft.
Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC a Lakewood Police Agent tracked the Honda to the 9000 block of South Floyd Avenue where he initiated a felony traffic stop and arrested the driver.
This person was wanted on seven felony arrest warrants including a prior Aggravated Motor Vehicle Theft case, a misdemeanor warrant for Failure to Appear on Shoplifting and Dangerous Drug charges. He was also charged with 2nd Degree Trespassing and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and jailed.
What other crimes this suspect committed during his free ride is not known.
The Honda Civic had been “cold-plated” with a license plate taken from another vehicle, a common technique used by repeat offenders to avoid detection, was recovered undamaged and returned to the owner. The “victim” after getting her car back asked that her boyfriend not be prosecuted for this auto theft.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Honda Civic in 2003 at AutoNation Honda in Roseville, California, at the request of a prior owner of the vehicle.