On April 7, 2012, the owners of an Oldsmobile Cutlass called the Commerce City Police Department to report the vehicle stolen from their home. After verifying the theft, Commerce City officers had the Oldsmobile’s information entered into the state and federal crime computers, which activated the LoJack transponder concealed in the vehicle. A short time

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