[Lincolnparkdc] Observed person stealing packages from front of home

[Mark]

The city should do cameras like the speed ones if they were serious

On Sun, Jun 14, 2020, 1:12 PM Martha Huizenga <martha at mhuizenga.com> wrote:

> Thanks Paul for this. Unfortunately we're home most of the day and I have
> found that most of our Amazon packages are delivered by postal service.
> However, the postal carriers aren't knocking or ringing the bell. They just
> leave the packages usually before or after the mail. So you have to keep a
> watch out for them.
>
> I saw something on the news I think that made me think they have stopped
> knocking in an effort to touch fewer surfaces.
>
> So keep an eye on your Amazon delivery updates.
>
> Martha
>
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2020, 12:21 PM Paul Krupa <paul.krupa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Saturday afternoon around 1:30 I was in my kitchen looking out onto
>> Independence and observed a masked (N95-type) man whom I did not recognize
>> enter the gate, pick up a package, observe it, place it in his shopping bag
>> and exit. I went out to my back porch and shouted, "Is that yours" and he
>> said, "yes" and proceeded west on Independence Ave SE.
>> I quickly lost sight of him but got on my bike and went down 12 street
>> looking down the alleys and saw him in the alley between Walter and C
>> streets near the intersection with 13th. I was on 12th and he saw me and
>> began running north. At this time I contacted the police via 911 and gave
>> them the information. They called back but I was not able to provide much
>> detail of his appearance or present whereabouts.
>> This is interesting because when I walked the dog in the morning I went
>> through the alley between Independence and C streets where I observed two
>> new packages of Vigilante coffee sitting on a recycle bin where my dog has
>> chosen to pee. I wondered who throws out sealed bags of coffee. Then I saw
>> the "roasted on date" read June 10, just three days earlier. Below the
>> recycle bin was an open Amazon box with a new book in it and a bottle of
>> cocktail mix. Then it dawned on me that these might be items someone who
>> pilfered packages didn't want. I collected the items and returned them to
>> their owners.
>> I'm reporting all of this as a long winded advisory to my neighbors to
>> not order stuff if you can't be there to pick it up. The police,
>> understandably, never showed and I don't expect them to. And I am not
>> approaching thieves over stuff where someone can get hurt. I never got
>> closer than a full block and never intended to. Just understand that if
>> there is a brown truck on the street or the mailman delivering packages
>> there is often someone following him collecting packages. Use a drop box or
>> other arrangement to reduce the potential for crime.
>>
>> --
>> Paul
>> 202 255 9008
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