New Assisted-GPS Covert Tracker Snares Unsuspecting Thieves

February28, 2007

Thieves should think twice before hi-jacking a trailer carrying The ENFORCER® Trax 200 new covert cargo trackers. When Orestes Miribal stole a trailer carrying $1.5 million in cigarettes along Interstate 95 in St. Johns County, Georgia, he never imagined he’d get caught 90 minutes later.* He even took the extra precaution of switching the stolen trailer to a different tractor to elude law enforcement recovery efforts. However, what Miribal did not know was that his purloined cargo also included special covert tracking units monitored by The ENFORCER® Tracking Service. Within minutes of the rig’s driver reporting the theft—which occurred during a late night break at a truck stop—the cargo’s shipper began monitoring the current location and direction of the stolen load using ENFORCER® Trax 200  web-based tracking service that provides up-to-the-minute location information. While Miribal and his accomplices were switching the trailer to a different tractor in a remote area along IH-95, Using the latest Assisted-GPS tracking technology embedded in the cigarette cargo itself The ENFORCER® Trax 200 kept an eye on the location of the cargo—significantly narrowing the search area and making it much faster for law officers to find the perpetrator and recover the stolen cargo. In fact, the entire stolen load was recovered so quickly it was still delivered on time to its intended destination.

 “This is a good example of technology paying big dividends for us,” saidSheriff David Shoar of the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office.**

The ENFORCER® Tracking Service is a web-based service that electronically monitors high-value products while they are being delivered to distributors and resellers. The ENFORCER® Trax 200  solution makes driver freight security compliance monitoring and covert cargo tracking affordable by replacing human resources with low cost, portable, electronic tracking devices.  

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* Facts taken from “Driver takes a break, hijacker takes his truck”, The Times-Union, written by

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Waconia, MN – The Cargo Guard protects the roll up door latch handle, locking mechanism and the padlock with a 10 gauge high strength steel protective shield.

On the first weekend of use the thief attempted to break into a major store chain’s truck that was secured with an ABLOY® padlock and the ENFORCER® Cargo Guard. The thief was not able to gain access to the ABLOY® padlock underneath the Cargo Guard. The truck itself sustained no damage and the load of high value merchandise remained secured.

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Waconia, MN – October 19th 2004 – The ENFORCER® Air Cuff™ Lock saves a high value load from being stolen at a truck stop.

Last night an attempted truck theft involving a major truckload carrier, with a high value load was prevented in Sparks, NV. The truck’s dashboard was severely damaged, while the Air Cuff™ Lock prevented the truck from being stolen. The cargo was still secured because the driver placed the ENFORCER® ABLOY® padlock on his trailer doors and had his ENFORCER® Air Cuff™ Lock in place over the air valves on the dashboard.

The driver stayed in his cab to make sure no one came back or tried to steal any of his personal belongings and called road maintenance in morning.