On Tuesday morning, January 3, 2012, the owner of a trucking company arrived at his storage yard and discovered that sometime during the previous night, someone had cut the lock on the chain of the yard’s gate and stolen two tractors. One was a 2003 Blue Freightliner tractor and the other a 2005 Blue Freightliner

On the morning of January 25, 2012, while on routine patrol, an officer with the Denver Police Department began to pick up the silent LoJack signal from a stolen vehicle in the vicinity on the LoJack Police Tracking Computer (PTC) installed in his patrol car. The LoJack PTC provides officers with on-board information that enables

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 the evening of January 21, 2012, while on routine patrol, an Aurora police officer began to pick up a silent LoJack signal on the LoJack Police Tracking Computer (PTC) installed in his patrol car. When he queried the reply code from the PTC against the national police computer database, he was informed that the

While on routine patrol on the morning of January 10, 2012, officers with the Denver Police Department picked up the silent LoJack homing signals from a 2009 Kia Rio reported stolen a shorttime earlier to the Federal Heights Police Department.  Following the directional and signal strength cues on the Police Tracking Computers installed in their

On the morning of January 19, 2012, the owner of United Rentals in Lakeland, Florida, noticed that a Takeuchi Skid Steer was missing from their lot, where it was last seen the previous night. He immediately contacted the Polk County Sheriff’s Office to report the theft. After completing a stolen vehicle report, the Polk County officers had

On the morning of January5, 2012, the owner of a 2007 Mazda MZ6 discovered his vehicle was missing from his driveway, where he had parked the previous night. He immediately contacted the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office to report the theft. After preparing a stolen vehicle report, the Mazda’s information was entered into the state and federal crime

In the early morning of January 21, 2012, the owner of a 2007 Honda CBR1000 motorcycle discovered the bike missing from the parking lot of his apartment complex in Melbourne, where he had parked it the previous night. He immediately contacted the Melbourne Police Department to report the theft. After completing a stolen vehicle report, Melbourne

On January 22, 2012, the owner of a 2012 Nissan Altima loaned his brand-new vehicle to a friend’s relative to run an errand, but when it was not returned to him after several hours, he reported the vehicle stolen to the New Orleans Police Department. After gathering all of the pertinent information, New Orleans Police entered

On January 19, 2012, the foreman of a construction company discovered a 2010 Takeuchi TL-250 loader missing from his work site. He had reported the theft of the equipment’s keys a few days earlier. He immediately reported the equipment theft to the Baton Rouge Police Department. After gathering all of the pertinent information, the police