The LoJack® System Helps the NYPD 112th Precinct Recover Honda Accord Stolen on Christmas Eve

Here’s a Christmas story you probably haven’t heard before- The Grinch Who Stole the Honda Accord. When the owner’s husband went to run some pre-holiday errands and left the car unlocked and running while he picked up a coffee, a thief jumped in and drove away.  The LoJack® system that was installed at Hillside Honda in Queens, NY when the Accord was purchased made the holiday a little brighter by helping local law enforcement recover it that same day.

On December 24^th, 2013, the Honda’s owner contacted the NYPD 112^th Precinct to report the crime. When the officers arrived, they took a written report and had the information entered into the NYPD stolen vehicle computer and the NCIC national system, which automatically activated the LoJack unit concealed in the Accord.

A short while later, officers from the NYPD 112^th precinct picked up the homing signal from the stolen car on the LoJack tracking computers installed in their patrol vehicles. The Honda was tracked to a residential street in the Forest Hills section of Queens, where it was parked and abandoned. After a brief surveillance, the undamaged Accord was retrieved and soon returned to its thankful owner.

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• Forest Hills
• found parked and abandoned
• Hillside Honda Queens NY
• Honda Accord
• LoJack Corporation
• NYPD
• NYPD 112th Precinct
• recovered same day
• stolen on Christmas Eve
• stolen while running and unlocked
• vehicle undamaged