Real-Time GPS Tracking Leads Police to Carjacker
A young woman’s joy ride with a stolen car was cut short by police, who found her with the help of a vehicle tracking device.
Sherice Johnson, a 21-year-old Chicago resident, was charged on Sept. 22 with vehicular hijacking by Oak Park police. Law officials were able to track down the stolen vehicle by the GPS tracking locater attached to the car. The victim was a woman, who said she was carjacked in the business district of Oak Park, a western suburb of Chicago. Police did not identify the victim by name.
The car owner told police that her car, a 2004 Audi, was parked outside a business on the 800 block of South Boulevard Sept. 21. Two women approached her about 5 p.m. and grabbed her at the shoulders as she approached the car. The two criminals grabbed the car keys and the woman’s cell phone, jumped in the car and drove away, according to police.
The woman saw no weapon and she was not injured in the incident, Oak Park Police Commander Len Jorgensen said.
The Audi was equipped with a real-time vehicle tracking system. A real-time GPS tracking device catches satellite radio signals at regular increments, usually every few seconds or minutes. The vehicle tracking receiver’s location is determined by a mathematical calculation called triangulation. Those position updates are transmitted over a wireless network. The vehicle tracking system user can see the vehicle moving along a map on a remote computer.
In this case, police monitored the stolen vehicle on a computer map. GPS tracking led them right to the Audi and the carjacker.
Johnson was later identified by the victim in a lineup.
Source: Pioneer Press
Tags: chicago, GPS Tracking, locator, police, stolen vehicle, vehicular hijacking
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