LoJack System Helps Sacramento County Auto Theft Task Force (SacCATTs) Recover Stolen 2018 Toyota Tacoma Pickup
- May 17, 2019
- Law Enforcement
The
owner of a 2018 Toyota Tacoma Pickup contacted the Sacramento Police Department
to report their vehicle stolen. The
spare set of keys might have been possibly left in the vehicle. The Sacramento
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 2018 Toyota Tacoma.
A short time later, an investigator with the Sacramento County Auto Theft Task
Force (SacCATTs) was working in the North Highland area when he was alerted to
the stolen Toyota Tacoma by means of the silent LoJack signal from the stolen
vehicle 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 tracked and located
the stolen Toyota parked, and unoccupied at the curb in a residential
neighborhood at Shell Street near Corvair Street. Surveillance was established on the vehicle
but the suspect(s) did not return.
The task force investigators recovered the stolen Toyota Tacoma and the vehicle
was towed/stored for safe keeping to be returned to the owner.
The LoJack® System was installed in the 2018 Toyota Tacoma in March 2018,
at Roseville Toyota, in Roseville, CA