LoJack System Helps Nevada Highway Patrol Recover Stolen Lincoln MKS
- November 1, 2018
- Law Enforcement
The owner of a 2001 Lincoln MKS contacted the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department to report that her vehicle had been stolen from the parking lot of her doctor’s office in the 700 block of Rampart. The owner had parked the Lincoln and locked it prior to going into the doctor’s office. While she was in the doctor’s office, she misplaced her keys and did not realize it until she found her vehicle missing. After the owner found that the Lincoln was not where she parked it she notified the police. The police were able to obtain video of a female leaving the doctor’s office and entering the owners Lincoln then driving off with it. 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 Lincoln.
A short while later troopers from Nevada Highway Patrol picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Lincoln 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 troopers tracked the vehicle to the parking lot of a business near the intersection of Rampart and Lake Mead where the troopers found the Lincoln unoccupied and undamaged. The troopers then recovered the Lincoln and towed it for safekeeping.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Lincoln MKS in November of 2010 at Team Ford, Las Vegas, Nevada.