Beware the new breed of porch pirate! Thief tails FedEx truck and pretends to be a homeowner when the courier stops before making off with laptop
- Incident occurred in Huntersville, North Carolina
- Slick thief tailed a FedEx truck and then made it appear she was the homeowner when he stopped an address to drop off a laptop
- Police are investigating the incident, and say it is the first ‘porch pirate’ robbery of its kind
North Carolina police have launched an investigation after a brazen thief tailed a FedEx truck and posed as a homeowner before taking off with a laptop that was handed to her directly by the courier.
The incident occurred in Huntersville last Thursday morning and was captured on security camera.
The video shows a woman in a silver sedan following the FedEx truck, which pulls to a stop to make a delivery at a suburban home.
The woman in the sedan subsequently slows down behind the truck and pulls into the home’s driveway, making it appear as if she actually lives there.
The deliveryman believes the woman is the owner of the house and jumps out of his truck, handing her the package directly.
Unaware that he has just handed a porch pirate a pricey laptop, the unsuspecting courier then hops back into his FedEx truck and drives off.
The woman waits until he is out of sight before she jumps back into her sedan, reverses back out of the driveway and drives off with her stolen bounty.
North Carolina police have launched an investigation after a brazen thief tailed a FedEx truck and posed as a homeowner before taking off with a laptop that was handed to her directly by the courier
The woman in the sedan subsequently slows down behind the truck and pulls into the home’s driveway, making it appear as if she actually lives there
The actual owner of the home and the newly delivered laptop alerted police when she checked her security camera later that day and saw the brazen robbery taking place.
It was just this lady pulling behind the FedEx truck and then she parked in my house like she lived there,’ homeowner Estefania Rauseo told Channel 9.
‘She took the package, like pretending it was for her.’
While porch pirates are usually spontaneous thieves who steal packages they spot sitting at a person’s front door, Huntersville police fear a new breed of parcel-nabbing thieves may soon be on the rise.
‘This porch pirate is the first one we’ve seen where someone has intercepted the package and acted as though they were the homeowners,’ Huntersville police told Channel 9.
Cops are appealing to the public for help and say the woman could face
Neighbors say the savvy sedan-driving thief could strike again and they are taking precautions.
‘I set up motion sensors so that if someone drives onto my porch or someone even drives by the road, I get a notification,’ local Bhumil Patel told the news network.
FedEx is set to refund Rasuseo the cost of her stolen laptop.
The deliveryman believes the woman is the owner of the house and jumps out of his truck, handing her the package directly
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