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Suspects nailed in package thefts
11/19/2011 9:37 AM by John M
nbc12 looks into the recent rash of package thefts:
Conrad isn’t the only one. Between August and November, fifteen similar larcenies were reported. The Richmond Police Department cracked the case thanks to a citizen tip. He saw one of the suspects take a package off the porch and open it, then he called police.
Lt. Cynthia Riley said the investigation snowballed linking three people to the thefts. Ronald Powers and Sheila Taylor are facing grand larceny charges, while Jazmine Taylor is still on the loose.
This is both comforting and frustrating. It’s comforting in that now I can safely assume it wasn’t someone on my block or close by. But it’s also frustrating because I reported mail theft three times to the RPD because it seemed that someone was targeting the delivery trucks. Each time our packages were on our porch less than an hour before we got home, so it seemed logical to look for patterns around delivery. Glad they got busted. I have a feeling they were involved in mail theft going back to October 2010.
Fantastic news!
Good news for people in Church Hill. Unfortunately, I will never get my stuff back from them. Hope those assholes enjoyed my $30 bottles of rare Gueuze.
Wow, that was quick. Ronald was just in the bike shop yesterday. He has always been super nice. It’s a shame that times are so bad it’s breaking up what little social trust the hood already has…
Is a life sentence too much to ask for? Hope that $5 calculator they stole from me was worth it.
Dam I thought they learned thier lesson after they stole my moms’s checks. Then the dirty btch stole my smart phone and tried to sell it to someone………Smart move being as though the phone had GPS and can be found even if the phone is off. Dumb criminals. Hope they learn that the world is getting too advanced for dumb criminals
Box #1 – I clicked on the link for the Channel 12 story, and here’s what the police said: “They would just follow the UPS trucks around as they were dropping the packages onto porches,” she explained. “They would just go right in behind them and pick them up.”
So you were right, they WERE targeting the trucks! Just took awhile for the cops to catch them – and one of the three is still out there, plus at the very end of the story it says they think there might be a fourth person involved but they are still investigating. Meanwhile, I’m still get everything delivered to my work. I figure even with these out of the way, there could be more.
Isn’t Jasmine still wanted?