LoJack System Helps California Highway Patrol Golden Gate Division Investigative Services Unit Recover Stolen 2004 Ford F250 Pickup
- August 27, 2018
- Law Enforcement
The owner of a 2004 Ford F250 pickup contacted the Concord Police Department to report that their vehicle had been stolen. The owner advised the vehicle was taken in the overnight hours from the parking lot at her fiancé’s work in the 1900 block of Mark Court. The Concord 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 Ford pickup.
A short while later, a vehicle theft investigator with the California Highway Patrol’s Investigative Services Unit was working in the city of Antioch, when he was directed to the stolen vehicle by the silent LoJack signal received 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 stolen Ford F250 was tracked to a residential area at Rio Grande Drive at Mira Vista Court, where it was found unoccupied parked at the curb. The stolen Ford F250 pickup was recovered by the CHP and it was towed/stored for safe keeping, to be returned to the owner.
The LoJack® System was installed in the 2004 Ford F250 pickup in September 2016, at Winter Chevrolet, in Pittsburg, CA.