On April 24, 2012, the owners of a 2006 Ingersoll Rand Special Cart contacted the Indio Police Department to report that their equipment had been stolen more than a year earlier. Two other LoJack-equipped pieces of construction equipment were reported to the Indio Police at the same time. After filing a theft report, the police

After the owners of a 2006 Ingersoll-Rand Light Tower reported the equipment stolen to the Indio Police Department, officers completed a theft report and had the equipment’s information entered into the nationwide law enforcement crime database. This routine police action automatically activated the LoJack transponder concealed in the equipment, prompting the transponder to begin emitting