On the morning of January 28, 2012, a California Highway Patrol officer from the Santa Fe Springs area was on highway patrol in his LoJack-equipped cruiser when he picked up the silent LoJack signal from a stolen 1995 Honda Civic reported stolen minutes earlier. After obtaining a description of the stolen vehicle, he tracked the signal to

A 1995 Honda Accord was parked near the owner’s residence in the Soundview section of the Bronx on the afternoon of January 24, 2012; when the owner returned for it, he discovered it stolen, and immediately notified the NYPD’s 43rd Precinct of the theft. After filing the stolen vehicle report, NYPD officers entered the Honda’s information