LoJack System Helps Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Recover Stolen Jeep Commander
- September 7, 2018
- Law Enforcement
The owner of a 2007 Jeep Commander contacted the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department to report that his vehicle had been stolen from the parking lot of his work in the 5200 block of Boulder Highway. The owner had gone out the parking lot earlier in the day to retrieve something from the Jeep. While he was returning from the parking lot he heard what he thought was something hitting the ground but didn’t pay much attention to it. Later when it was time to leave he found his keys missing and realized he had dropped his keys in the parking lot. When he went out to check he found no keys and his Jeep missing so he contacted police.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department verified the theft and entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Jeep.
7 minutes later officers from Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Jeep 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 a residential area in the 1500 block of Raspberry Hill where they located the Jeep unoccupied and abandoned. The Jeep was recovered and returned back to the owner.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Jeep Commander in February of 2010 at Centennial Toyota, Las Vegas, Nevada.