When the owners of a used car dealership discovered that an employee had taken a 1998 Volskwagen Jetta without permission, they tried for several days to locate the vehicle.  When they were unable to do so, they reported the theft to the Wheat Ridge Police Department.  It was the police department’s routine entry of the

When the owners of a 2000 Jeep Cherokee discovered that their vehicle had been stolen on the morning of January 23, 2012, they immediately reported the theft to the Denver Police Department.  It was the police department’s routine entry of the Jeep’s information into the nationwide law enforcement stolen vehicle computer system that automatically activated

On January 20, 2012, while on routine patrol, a Colorado State Patrol Trooper began to pick up a silent LoJack signal on the Police Tracking Computer (PTC)  installed in his patrol car. When he queried the code on the PTC with the national police computer database, he was informed that the distrress signals were coming from