As many prepare to send and receive holiday packages, one Southern California man is urging residents to exercise caution after he had an expensive package intercepted right outside his front door.
On Nov. 14, John Shin, a Lawndale resident, was tracking his shipment of an expensive laptop when he was notified it had been delivered. Apparently, he wasn’t the only one tracking his package.
When Shin went to check the front of his home near the intersection of Prairie Avenue and Manhattan Beach Boulevard, the package was nowhere to be found.
Shin told KTLA’s Kimberly Cheng that he saw the UPS driver and followed him down the street to stop and ask him about the missing package.
“And he said, ‘Well some guy showed me his ID,’” Shin explained.
Sure enough, Shin later found footage of the exchange. The video shows a stranger stopping the UPS driver as he steps out of the truck with Shin’s package. The man shows the driver something on his phone, possibly a fake ID, and then is handed the delivery.