LoJack® System Helps Philadelphia Police Department Recover Stolen Acura TL
- May 12, 2016
- recovery stories
The owner of a used car establishment in Philadelphia arrived at the start of the business day to discover a 2008 Acura TL missing from his lot. A check was made with other employees and then a call was placed to 911. The Philadelphia Police Department Radio dispatched an officer to investigate the incident. When the officer was unable to locate the Acura a stolen vehicle report was prepared and taken to the 24th Philadelphia PD District HQ. The stolen vehicle information was entered into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Acura.
A short while later officers from the Philadelphia PD Northeast Division picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Acura 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 signal to the area of Summerdale Avenue and observed a vehicle matching the description of the stolen Acura but with a different license plate number. The officers checked the public vehicle identification number on this vehicle and discovered that this was in fact the Acura stolen earlier from the used car dealership.
The Acura was processed for physical evidence and subsequently returned to the car dealership.
The LoJack® System was installed in the Acura TL in February 2008 at Tischer Acura in Laurel, Maryland.