In recent years, car and property theft incidents have occurred frequently in downtown areas. Through layers of radio waves, a car jammer simply modified from a micro-power radio transmitter interferes with the car owner’s ability to lock the door.signal jammer
At about 7:30 in the morning on July 17, 2015, Chen Qing (pseudonym) drove her child to Beijing Daxing 11 Jianhua Kindergarten.
Chen Qing recalled that it was raining heavily that day, so she parked the car and pressed the lock and hurriedly escorted her child into the kindergarten.
About 7 minutes later, Chen Qing returned and found her wallet stolen from the car. “I obviously got out of the car and pressed the lock!” In panic, she immediately called the police.
Chen Qing usually has the habit of opening the door to confirm whether the car is locked after parking the car. Because it rained that day, she ignored the details of locking the car.
After reporting the crime, the police reminded that Chen Qing was most likely to have encountered a thief who used a car jammer to commit theft. The theft suspect turned on the jammer not far from the vehicle, causing the door to fail to lock. When the owner left carelessly, he entered the vehicle to commit theft.
Chen Qing’s case is not an isolated case.
On the morning of February 23 this year, the police in Haidian District, Beijing captured two suspects, Guo Mouzhen and Guo Moufeng, who were suspected of using car jammers and other items to commit theft. In the suspect car, the police seized a large number of crime tools such as car jammers and screwdrivers, as well as suspected stolen items such as a laptop and a handbag.
The suspects Guo Mouzhen and Guo Moufeng confessed that when committing crimes, they chose to attack unattended high-end cars on the roadside, or used jammers to interfere with the owner’s locking of the car, or used screwdrivers and other tools to break the car glass, and then stole property. Since December last year, they have committed more than ten crimes in Haidian and Changping, stealing a total of more than 30,000 yuan in cash, several mobile phones, handbags, laptops and other items.
On May 9, 2016, the Beijing Haidian District Court tried a three-person gang that specifically used jammers to interfere with car owners locking their cars and then steal property in the car.
The defendant described that when committing the crime, the three of them held jammers and waited for the opportunity to stand on the opposite side of the road when a car stopped. At the same time, they turned on the jammer to release the “jamming signal.” After the car owner left, several people came forward to see if there was anyone left in the car. Once there is valuable property in the car, they open the door and steal it. Using this method, property has been stolen from many luxury cars such as Porsche, Audi, and BMW.
According to data from the China Judgment Document Network, since January 26, 2014, courts in various districts of Beijing have heard 26 cases involving the use of car jammers to commit theft.
