With the holidays just around the corner, more people are having packages delivered to their homes. Law enforcement officials are warning about so-called porch pirates who are looking for opportunities to take them.
Chris Herrera remembers the surreal feeling when he first watched the surveillance video of his packages being stolen. It happened Saturday in broad daylight, just two minutes after his packages were delivered. A man walked up and took the Christmas gifts.
“Wait, that’s my house,” Herrera remembered his reaction as he watched the recording from work. “You feel invaded. You feel violated.”
The suspect appeared to cover his face with an empty box. He then swapped that old box for a couple new, full ones. Less than an hour later, a neighbor knocked in Herrera’s door.
“We got your box,” Herrera remembered his neighbor saying. “They managed to trace our address because on the empty box that apparently the thief dropped at their house too and that’s where we started conversing.”