LoJack® System Helps Law Enforcement Recover Stolen 2012 Magnum Light Tower
- August 19, 2015
- recovery stories
The renter of a 2012 Magnum light tower contacted the North Miami Beach Police Department to report that their piece of construction equipment was stolen sometime between Saturday evening and Monday morning. The responding officer prepared a stolen vehicle report, theft affidavit and had the machine’s information entered into the state and federal crime information computers.
Later in the day, just after noon, an Auto Theft Task Force investigator picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen piece of construction equipment on their on-board LoJack Police Tracking Computer (PTC). The investigator began tracking the stolen machine by following the directional and audible cues on their PTC screen. The investigator located the general area where the signal was being broadcast. They requested Miami-Dade Police Department to check the area for the machine so that the investigator’s vehicle wouldn’t “spook” the culprits. The aviation unit advised that the light tower was on N.E. 135th Terrace, west of N.E. 25th Avenue, on the south side of the street, next to a blue Ford pickup truck, beneath a blue tarp. The investigator contacted the NMBPD for backup. The light tower was located exactly where the aviation advised, in the 2400 block of N.E. 135th Terrace. The light tower was recovered, released to a representative of the construction equipment rental company, who responded to the scene, and removed from state and federal crime information computer systems.
The LoJack® System was installed in the 2012 Magnum light tower in December 2013.