On March 29, 2012, Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department-Lancaster patrol deputies began to pick up a silent LoJack signal on their patrol car’s LoJack Police Tracking Computer. After querying the “Reply Code” appearing on the computer display with the police stolen vehicle database, the deputies were alerted that they were tracking a 2008 Chevrolet Tahoe 4×4

On March 5, 2012, the owners of a 1995 Porsche 911 discovered that their vehicle had been stolen and immediately reported the theft to the Los Angeles Police Department’s Hollywood Division. LAPD officers completed a stolen vehicle report and had the Porsche’s information entered into the state and federal crime computers. This routine police action