LoJack System Helps San Joaquin County Auto Theft Task Force (Delta RATT) Recover Stolen 2014 John Deere T8210 Tractor
- December 1, 2018
- Law Enforcement
A commercial construction company contacted the California Highway Patrol in Tracy to report that a 2014 John Deere Tractor had been stolen from a freeway construction site at I-205 and MacArthur Drive. The tractor had been rented from an equipment rental company. The California Highway Patrol verified the theft and entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the 2014 John Deere T8210 Tractor.
Shortly after the LoJack activation, Investigators assigned to the San Joaquin County Auto Theft Task Force (Delta RATT) were alerted to the stolen tractor by means of the silent LoJack signal. The investigators then tracked the stolen John Deere tractor 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 tractor was located parked abandoned, on a Levee Road off of MacArthur Drive. The location was behind a closed golf course, approximately two and a half miles from where the tractor was stolen.
The stolen John Deere tractor was recovered by the Delta RATT investigators and the vehicle was towed/stored for safe keeping to be returned to the rental company.
The LoJack® System was installed in the 2014 John Deere T8210 Tractor in January of 2015, for the commercial customer.