LoJack® System Helps Fresno HEAT Recover Stolen Toyota Rav4
- January 7, 2016
- recovery stories
The owner of a Toyota Rav4 contacted the Fresno Office of the California Highway Patrol to report that his vehicle was stolen. The CHP verified the theft and entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Toyota.
About five hours later, an investigator from the Fresno HEAT, the Fresno County Auto Theft Task Force, picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Toyota 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 investigator tracked the Toyota to a residential area near Clinton and Bryan Avenues in northwest Fresno. The Toyota was found unoccupied and abandoned on the side of the road. Investigators conducted surveillance of the Toyota in hopes that the suspect would return without success.
The Toyota was recovered intact and undamaged; it was released to the owner at the recovery scene.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Toyota Rav4 in July 2008 at Autoland of Clovis in California.