LoJack System Helps California Highway Patrol Valley Division Air Operations and Placer County Auto Theft Task Force Recover 2016 Honda Accord Taken in Residential Burglary
- October 6, 2018
- Law Enforcement
The owner of a 2016 Honda Accord Contacted the Roseville Police Department to report their vehicle had been stolen. The owner advised that in the overnight hours, the suspect(s) gained access to their garage and then an unlocked attached laundry room, where all of the owner’s keys were hanging. The suspect(s) then used the keys to steal the Honda Accord.
The Roseville 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 Honda Accord.
A short while later, officers with the California Highway Patrol Valley Division Air Operations Unit in a fixed wing aircraft were flying over I-80 in the Roseville, Citrus Heights area when they were alerted to the stolen Honda Accord 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 Honda was tracked to a residential area in the city of Citrus Heights. A CHP ground unit responded and the stolen Honda was located unoccupied, parked at the curb on Mountainside Drive near Canevalley Circle. Investigators from both the Sacramento and Placer County Auto Theft Task Forces responded and established surveillance on the vehicle, but the suspect(s) did not return to the vehicle.
The stolen Honda Accord was recovered by the Placer County Auto Theft Task Force and the vehicle was released to the owner at the scene.
The LoJack® System was recently installed in the 2016 Honda Accord in January of 2016, at Folsom Lake Honda, in Rancho Cordova, CA