On January 30, 2012, a woman went into a Home Depot store in North Richland Hills and rented a 2008 Ford F350 pickup using false identification. When the store discovered the fraud, they reported the theft to the North Richland Hills Police Department. After completing a stolen vehicle report, the officers had the vehicle information entered into

On the afternoon of January 27, 2012, a manager of the Home Depot in Grove City, OH discovered that one of the store’s rental vehicles had been stolen by fraudulent means two days after the rental transaction occurred. The manager quickly filed a theft report wiht the Grove City Police Department. After verifying the theft, the Grove City

On Thursday morning, January 19, 2012, the victim returned to a job site in Stockton and discovered that unknown suspects had stolen a 2005 Melroe skid steer during the previous night. The victim contacted the Stockton Police Department to report the theft. The reporting officer prepared a stolen equipment report and had the stolen tractor’s information

On the afternoon of January 5, 2012, Riverside County Auto Theft Interdiction Detail (RAID) Investigators picked up the silent LoJack homing signal from a 2001 Caterpillar Back-Hoe Loader, which had been entered as a stolen vehicle five minutes earlier by the Riverside Police Department. The investigators tracked the signal on the LoJack Police Tracking Computers

On January 3, 2012, the owner of a 2000 Caterpillar backhoe reported his construction equipment stolen to the Columbia Police Department. This action triggered the LoJack unit concealed inside the backhoe to begin emitting a silent radio signal. This signal can be tracked by law enforcementofficers  in patrol vehicles equipped with Police Tracking Computers (PTCs), installed by

On a Sunday night before the manager of a national home improvement store in San Antonio, TX left for the evening, the store’s skid steer loader was secured on a trailer. The manager had a very unpleasant Monday morning, as he discovered that the loader had been stolen right off the trailer.  Fortunately, the skid

After a rental company’s John Deere backhoe was stolen off of a jobsite near Perkins, Oklahoma, a theft report was filed with the Payne County Sheriff’s Department.  A complete description of the equipment and serial/pin number was entered into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) computers, which automatically activated the LoJack transponder concealed in the

From busting chop shops to getting the bad guys behind these crimes and their weapons off the streets, LoJack continues to be the most effective system for protecting construction equipment from today’s sophisticated professional thieves.  Top Construction Equipment Theft Recovery Stories of 2011:  #5. Thieves Leave Loader to “Cool Off,” but LoJack Found it “Hot”

After law enforcement was notified that a 2007 Multiquip Light Tower was stolen from its owner, they entered the theft into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) computers.  This routine action automatically activated the LoJack System covertly installed on the Light Tower. Just 15 minutes after the Light Tower was reported stolen and entered into

LoJack® continues to be No. 1 in theft recovery, with a recovery rate greater than 90% on cars and trucks. Since 1986, LoJack has recovered more than 300,000 stolen vehicles and construction equipment—worth nearly $4 billion. LoJack has had some incredible recovery stories over the course of its 25+ years. Below are the sports car