BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – A FedEx delivery driver was arrested after East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office detectives found approximately $62,000 worth of stolen merchandise in a storage unit.
Property theft detectives were notified Feb. 13 of a theft originally reported Feb. 11 involving a FedEx package that was never delivered.
Detectives identified the suspect as Tyran Jackson, 27, a FedEx delivery driver accused of the theft.
The investigation revealed the stolen package was being stored inside a storage unit in the 10500 block of Perkins Road.
Detectives obtained a search warrant for the unit. Upon execution of the search warrant, detectives said they located and recovered the stolen FedEx merchandise inside the storage unit.
After completing the search and inventory process, detectives found Jackson and took him into custody. Jackson is being booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison…