Late one Saturday night, this Carteret, NJ resident got the shock of his life when he returned home to find that his home had been robbed and his 2010 Toyota Tundra truck had been stolen. The victim did have one advantage over the thief- he had a LoJack® system installed when he bought his truck,

In this case, a Cadillac SRX stolen in Pennsylvania is recovered by police in New York City with the help of a LoJack® system installed in Massachusetts in less than an hour and a half after activation. On August 31st, 2013, the Cadillac’s owner contacted the Penbrook Police in Harrisburg, PA, to report that his

If you look at auto theft trend reports, you can see that certain vehicles are very popular with car thieves. Why? Usually these are the same cars favored by buyers, meaning there is a big market for their parts with illegal ‘chop shops’. In this case, two Acura RSX sedans were stolen from the same

There are many auto thieves who are repeat offenders. They keep stealing other people’s vehicles until they are caught. In this case, the NYPD, helped by the LoJack® system, track down a 2013 Porsche Panamera stolen in New Jersey, and recover a second stolen Porsche in the process. On May 8th, 2013, the Panamera’s owner

What’s the worst feeling you can get when you wake up in the morning? Some would say it’s being tired from lack of sleep, or finding out you’ve run out of coffee, but even worse is when you leave your home to drive to work….and your vehicle is gone! This was the dilemma facing the owner of

Often, when the LoJack® System is activated to recover a vehicle, there are other stolen items retrieved besides the car itself, as illustrated in the following story. On April 2, 2013 the owner of an Infiniti G35 contacted the New York City Police 63rd precinct in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York, to report that his Infiniti

On January 31, 2013, the owner of a 2003 Honda Accord contacted the Jersey City Police Department to report that his vehicle had been stolen. The customer told police that the vehicle was last seen parked in front of his house. The Jersey City Police Department verified the theft and entered the vehicle information into

On June 10, 2012, the owners of a 2007 Ford Focus contacted the Lowell Police Department to report that their vehicle was stolen from outside their residence in Lowell, Massachusetts. The Lowell Police Department verified the theft and entered the Ford’s information into the state and federal crime computers, which automatically activated the LoJack transponder

A 2002 Caterpillar Excavator 950G was left overnight at a construction site on Barnes Avenue in the Bronx. When the owner returned to the site on the morning of April 25, 2012, he discovered the equipment missing and immediately reported the theft to the New York Police Department’s 47th precinct. NYPD officers entered the excavator’s

When the owner of a 2003 Kia Sorento discovered his vehicle missing, he immediately contacted the NYPD’s 106th Precinct to report the theft. NYPD gathered all of the pertinent information, completed a vehicle theft report, and had the Kia’s information entered into the state and federal crime databases. This routine police action automatically activated the