LoJack System Helps Placer County Regional Auto Theft Task Force Recover Stolen 2019 Ford F250 Pickup
- December 30, 2018
- Law Enforcement
The owner of a 2019 Ford F250 Pickup contacted the Lincoln Police Department to report that their vehicle had been stolen. The owner advised the vehicle was taken from the driveway of their residence on Whistler Court and that the key had inadvertently been left in the vehicle. The Lincoln 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 2019 Ford F250 pickup.
A short while after the LoJack activation, an Investigator from the Roseville Police Department, who is assigned to the Placer County Regional Auto Theft Task Force began receiving the LoJack signal from the stolen Ford truck 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 investigator tracked the stolen Ford truck to a residential area and found the vehicle unoccupied on Whaley Street near Carver Court. Investigators from the auto theft task force established surveillance on the stolen vehicle, but the suspect(s) did not return.
The stolen 2019 Ford F250 was recovered by the task force investigators and the owner responded to the scene to retrieve their vehicle.
The LoJack® System was installed in the 2019 Ford F250 Pickup in September of 2018, at Crown Motors, in Redding CA.