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LoJack Helps Miami Gardens Police Recover Stolen Toyota Avalon, Abandoned Behind Supermarket

  • September 21, 2012
  • recovery stories
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According to sources, on Sunday evening, August 19, 2012, the owner of a 2006 Toyota Avalon sedan parked his car in front of his home, with the keys in it and the motor running, and ran into the house to retrieve something. When he emerged from the house, he observed his vehicle traveling westbound on N.W. 195th Street. The owner contacted the Miami Gardens Police Department to report the crime.

Miami Gardens officers verified the theft and had the Toyota’s information entered into the state and federal crime computers, which automatically activated the LoJack transponder concealed in the vehicle.

A short while later, an officer with the Miami Gardens Police Department picked up the silent LoJack homing signal from the stolen Avalon on his on-board LoJack Police Tracking computer (PTC). Following the directional and audible cues on their PTC’s screen, the officer, along with backup, located the abandoned vehicle behind a supermarket in the 18300 block of N.W. 27th Avenue. The vehicle was recovered in good condition, released to the owner at the scene, and removed from federal and state crime computer systems.

The LoJack Vehicle Recovery System was installed in the Toyota Avalon on December 14, 2005 at Neil Toyota in Lynbrook, New York, and has been protecting it ever since.


Printed from the LoJack Recovery Story Library.

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