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LoJack System Helps Nevada Highway Patrol Recover Stolen Ford Explorer

  • January 5, 2019
  • Law Enforcement
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The owner of a 2004 Ford Explorer contacted the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department to report that his vehicle had been stolen from the parking lot of his place of employment in the 4500 block of Spring Mountain.  The owner had gone out to his vehicle during the work day to get something out of it and inadvertently left it unlocked with the keys inside.  When he returned to leave for the day he found that it was missing so he notified the police.

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 Ford.

A short while later officers from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and troopers from the Nevada Highway Patrol picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Ford 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 officers and troopers tracked the vehicle to the intersection of Ogden and Sunrise where it was discovered abandoned.  Nevada Highway Patrol troopers recovered the Ford and towed it for safekeeping.

The LoJack® System was installed in the Ford Explorer in July of 2004 at Ford of Orange, Orange, California.


Printed from the LoJack Recovery Story Library.

LoJack® unit activation is contingent upon the vehicle being located within LoJack’s coverage area that spans counties across 29 states throughout the U.S. and District of Columbia. You may find LoJack’s coverage areas at www.lojack.com/coverage or by calling 1-800-4-LoJack.

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