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LoJack System Helps Chicago Police Recover Jeep Grand Cherokee

  • September 19, 2018
  • Law Enforcement
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The owner Jeep Grand Cherokee contacted the Chicago Police Department to report that their vehicle had been stolen when they had left it running on the 1500 block of South Kildare Ave in Chicago’s West Lawndale 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 Jeep.

Shortly thereafter officers from the Chicago’s Fillmore District 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 the 2200 S Kildare Avenue where the vehicle was observed parked and unoccupied. The vehicle was recovered and returned to a grateful owner on scene. The Jeep Grand Cherokee was recovered undamaged before it could be stripped, cloned, re-tagged or used in a crime.

The LoJack® System was installed in the in the Jeep Grand Cherokee at Direct Sales of North Connecticut in May of 2006.


Printed from the LoJack Recovery Story Library.

LoJack® unit activation is contingent upon the vehicle being located within LoJack’s coverage area that spans counties across 29 states throughout the U.S. and District of Columbia. You may find LoJack’s coverage areas at www.lojack.com/coverage or by calling 1-800-4-LoJack.

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