Armed robbers steal car with Lojack, lead police to their location

They were armed with a shotgun and held up a 16 year old girl, and they almost made a clean get away with her parent's van. But the thieves didn't know that van had a LoJack tracking system.

"My husband called me and said Anna Lee come here, we got to go we got to go, somebody robbed the store," Said Anna Lee Placide, describing the moment she found out that the family business had been robbed.

Her 16 year old daughter inside the business all by her self at the register. Late Tuesday afternoon, Palm Springs police say two men walked in to Marklee Uniforms, Inc., one with a shot gun, one with a knife. But Mrs. Placide tells us her teen aged daughter did not put up a fight, and thankfully wasn't harmed, but was terrified after what happened.

"Thank god, when I talked to my daughter she was crying and yelling. I said, 'are you ok?' she could not even talk to me," Placide told us.

 She said they made off with the money in the register, a safe, and her daughter's cell phone. But they didn't make it very far.

The family van is coming back because the Placide they installed a "lojack" tracking system in their van.

"That was a big help to us today, yes." Said Palm Springs Police Lt. Sal Abrascato

It led police to the this house in Lake Worth where they say they found the crooks unloading their loot.

They were able to arrest them without incident. But the for Anna Lee Placide, she says most important is that her daughter is OK.

"Everything I need is my daughter. The most important thing in my life is my daughter. The store is nothing to me, but my daughter," she said.