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LoJack System Helps Chicago Police Recover Hummer HU2

  • August 8, 2018
  • Law Enforcement
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The owner Hummer HU2 contacted the Chicago Police Department to report that their vehicle had been stolen from in front of their residence in the 3800 block of West 68th Place after they had left it running and open. The vehicle theft occurred in Chicago’s West Lawn neighborhood. Chicago Police verified the theft and entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Hummer.

A short time later officers from Chicago’s Chicago Lawn district picked up the directional signals emanating from the stolen Hummer with the LoJack Police Tracking Computers (PTC) that are installed in patrol vehicles and aircraft.  Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, the officers tracked the vehicle to the 2800 block of West 61st street where the vehicle was recovered parked and unoccupied. The stolen Hummer was recovered before it could be stripped, damaged, cloned re-tagged or used in a crime. Police investigation into this vehicle theft continues.

The LoJack® System was installed in the Hummer HU2 at Woodfield Chevrolet in Schaumberg Illinois in Jan of 2003.

 

 


Printed from the LoJack Recovery Story Library.

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