LoJack® System Helps DeKalb County Police Department Recover Stolen Porsche Cayenne
- December 8, 2015
- recovery stories
The owners of a 2004 Porsche Cayenne contacted the DeKalb County Police Department to report that it had been stolen from his driveway sometime during the day while he was at work.
The DeKalb County PD verified the theft and entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Porsche. The owner was unaware that his Porsche was equipped with LoJack.
A short while later officers from the DeKalb County PD auto theft unit picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Porsche 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 the Porsche to a parking lot where it was found abandoned.
The officer suspected that the Porsche had been parked there before moving it on to a chop shop. The case was turned over to a DeKalb County PD detective for further investigation.
The owner was contacted that it had been recovered, in very good condition and had been recovered by tracking it with a LoJack PTC installed in the County patrol cars.
The LoJack® System had been installed in the Porsche in 1995 at Hennessy Porsche in North Atlanta, Georgia.