On January 30, 2012, Hertz Equipment Rentals in French Camp, CA, discovered that their 2005 Ford F-250 was missing. They quickly reported the theft to Contra Costa  California Highway Patrol. After verifying the theft, CHP officers completed a stolen vehicle report and had the Ford pickup truck’s VIN entered into the state and federal crime computers.

After the owners reported their vehicle stolen to law enforcement, the vehicle information was entered into the statewide stolen vehicle system (SVS/NCIC) computer. This routine police action automatically activated the LoJack transponder concealed in the vehicle. Neither the owners nor law enforcement had to do anything else to activate the LoJack Stolen Vehicle Recovery Network

Late in the day on December 11, 2011, California Highway Patrol officers received the silent LoJack signal from a 2000 Chevrolet Monte Carlo stolen earlier that afternoon from the LAPD Harbor area.  After receiving the description of the stolen vehicle, they tracked the signal, using computer cues, to the 500 block of 119th Street in

When the owner of a 2006 Toyota Corolla discovered that his vehicle had been stolen on January 14, 2012, he reported the theft to the Chula Vista Police Department.  After the police department completed a stolen vehicle report, they had the vehicle’s information entered into the state and federal crime computers. This routine police action automatically

When the owner of a 2004 Nissan Frontier King Cab pickup truck discovered that his vehicle had been stolen on the morning of January 4, 2012, he immediately reported the theft to the Chula Vista Police Department.  The investigating officer immediately contacted his dispatch center to enter the stolen vehicle in the system as the

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

On the morning of January 21, 2012, the owners of a 2004 Toyota Tundra pickup truck discovered that their vehicle had been stolen and reported the theft to the San Diego Police Department.  San Diego officers completed a stolen vehicle report and had information about the stolen Toyota entered into the state and federal crime computers. This

On the morning of January 19, 2012, the owner of a 2008 Toyota RAV-4 Sport contacted the Fresno County Sheriff’s Department to report the vehicle stolen. Fresno deputies completed a stolen vehicle report and had information about the RAV-4 entered into the state and federal crime computers. This routine police action automatically activated the LoJack

In the early morning hours of January 28, 2012, El Monte Police Department Air-45 flight officers were on routine patrol when they began to pick up a silent LoJack signal on their onboard LoJack Police Tracking Computer. When they called the LoJack reply code into the national system, they were informed that the signal was

In the early morning hours of January 6, 2012, the owner of a 1992 Honda Accord discovered that her vehicle had been stolen and immediately reported the theft to the National City Police Department. National City Police prepared a stolen vehicle report and had the stolen Honda’s information entered into the state and federal crime