LoJack System Helps Yuba County Sheriff’s Department Recover Stolen 2019 Jeep Cherokee One in Custody
- December 30, 2018
- Law Enforcement
The owner of a 2019 Jeep Cherokee contacted the Oroville Police Department to report that their vehicle had been stolen. The owner advised the key fob had inadvertently been left in the vehicle. The Oroville 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 Jeep Cherokee.
A short while later, deputies from the Yuba County Sheriff’s Department, were alerted to the stolen Jeep Cherokee by means of the silent LoJack signal from the stolen vehicle. The stolen Jeep was tracked 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 Jeep was tracked and found at a gas station/food mart at the corner of North Beale Road and Woodland Drive in the town of Linda. The vehicle was occupied by a female driver and male passenger. Upon seeing the marked sheriff’s units, the female immediately drove into an adjacent vacant lot and fled the vehicle on foot into an apartment complex, escaping apprehension. The male passenger was taken into custody. Investigation into the identity of the female is continuing and security video from the gas station has been obtained.
The undamaged stolen Jeep Cherokee were recovered by the Yuba County Sheriff’s Department and was towed/stored to be returned to the owner.
The LoJack® System was installed in the 2019 Jeep Cherokee in May of 2018, at John L. Sullivan Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram, in Yuba City, CA.