Recently, police in the Junín de los Andes region of Neuquen Province, Argentina, successfully arrested a suspect for robbery using vehicle signal jammer. During the operation, the police seized a large number of electronic devices, computers, ammunition and drugs used in the crime, and revealed the high-tech means used by the suspect to commit crimes through signal jammer blockers.
Police suspect signal jammers in car theft case
The initial clue to the case came from a victim's report. According to the victim's statement, he parked his car at the intersection of General Villegas and Captain Drury in Junín, Andes, and returned home to find that personal belongings and $11,350 in cash had been stolen from the car.
Strangely, there were no signs of forced opening of the vehicle, which made the police suspect that the suspect used a signal blocker to bypass the vehicle's anti-theft system.
Signal jammer blockers can block the normal operation of vehicle alarms and locking systems, making car owners mistakenly believe that their vehicles are safely locked, when in fact they are completely open.
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The Junín de los Andes Security Bureau subsequently launched an investigation, retrieved security cameras in the area of the incident, and successfully locked the suspect and the vehicle he was driving.
After collecting enough evidence, the police applied for two search warrants, one for the Amutén community in Junín de los Andes and the other for two residences in the Gran Neuquen community in the capital of Neuquen.
In the end, the police successfully arrested the suspect in a house in the capital Neuquen and seized a number of criminal tools, including signal jammer blockers, communication equipment, a computer, 20-caliber bullets, and the clothes the suspect wore during the robbery.
| Private car theft rate in Argentina | |
| 86.0
cases per 100,000 population in 2015 |
What is the definition of private car? Private Cars means motor vehicles, excluding motorcycles, commercial vehicles, buses, lorries, construction and agricultural vehicles. |
| Private car theft rate of Argentina sank by 44.19% from 154.1 cases per 100,000 population in 2008 to 86.0 cases per 100,000 population in 2015. | |
The revelation of this case
The cracking of this case reveals the potential threat to social security caused by the illegal use of technical equipment such as signal blocker jammers. They are used as illegal tools by criminals to circumvent modern anti-theft technology.
Signal jammer devices can affect the normal operation of vehicles, mobile phones and other equipment in a short period of time, facilitating crime.
The police said they will continue to strengthen the crackdown on high-tech crimes, especially the illegal use of similar signal jammers.