Honda Accord Stolen from Parking Lot, Recovered by Fort Lauderdale Police Using LoJack
- November 4, 2012
- recovery stories
On Thursday morning, October 11, 2012, the owner of a 2009 White Honda Accord discovered that a number of vehicles had been burglarized in his apartment complex parking lot. Two of the vehicles belonged to the Honda owner. In the owner’s other vehicle was a spare set of keys for the Honda Accord.
Upon discovering the theft, the owner contacted the Miami-Dade Police Department to report the crime. The responding officer prepared a stolen vehicle report and theft affidavit and had the Honda’s information entered into the state and federal crime computers. This routine police procedure automatically activated the LoJack transponder concealed in the Honda Accord.
Immediately upon activation, a Fort Lauderdale Police Department officer picked up the silent LoJack homing signal from the stolen sedan on the LoJack Police Tracking Computer installed in their patrol car. Following the directional and signal strength cues on the LoJack computer, the officer, along with backup, located the Honda, parked and abandoned in an office building parking lot in the 700 block of Southeast 3rd Avenue. The officers conducted surveillance on the Honda; however, after several hours passed without any activity, the officers recovered the vehicle. The car was recovered with window damage, towed to the police impound yard for safekeeping, and removed from federal and state crime computer systems.
The LoJack Vehicle Recovery System was installed in the Honda Accord sedan on September 2, 2011 at Braman Honda of Palm Beach, Green Acres, Florida and has been protecting it ever since.