A porch pirate in Florida was caught instructing a child to steal a package left outside, then the child happily exclaimed, “I got it,” and then calmly walked away with his new treasure.
The woman and child, whose relationships are unknown, were walking in Miami’s Silver Bluff neighborhood around 9:40 p.m. on January 29 when they happened upon an Amazon package that had recently been delivered to a family.
Upon seeing a white and blue plastic bag containing about $40 worth of clothing, the unidentified woman motioned for her child to go get it, police said. Miami Police Department.
Wearing a red jumpsuit and white hat and carrying a tablet, the child toddled up to the door, picked up her belongings, turned around and ran happily away.
“Okay,” the boy shouted, holding his package in the air.
“It makes me sick to my stomach to see this poor child go through this,” said the victim, a woman named Amelia. he told CBS Miami.
“I was shocked to see an incident involving a child. It wasn’t the act of receiving a package. It was a child receiving a package. I felt it was unacceptable behavior.”
Police condemned a “heartbreaking” nefarious plot and said it was the first time they had encountered porch pirates using young children as accomplices.
“We’ve never seen a crime where they would do something like this,” Miami police spokesman Mike Vega said, according to the newspaper. “Porch Pirates do this kind of thing all over the place. But this is the first time they use children.”
“It’s heartbreaking to see a child commit a crime like this. Why would they let a child do something like this at such a young age?”
Amelia noticed a strange theft when her package never arrived and checked her Ring camera to observe the petty thief’s movements.
“I was shocked to see an incident involving a child. It wasn’t the act of receiving a package. It was a child receiving a package. I felt this was unacceptable behavior,” she added.
The victim said he was planning to write a report with police to help them “detect the offender more effectively.”
“She should really be ashamed.” Amelia told Local 10. “I don’t think she’s fit to be a mother if she let her child go through this.”
According to WFOR-TV, a neighbor had recently seen a woman and child together in the area, and Amelia believed they lived in the area, but police said the woman It has not been revealed where he lived.
The police department posted the video on social media and asked for help identifying the adults seen in the video.
“We don’t even know if the child knew what he was doing,” said Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Freddy Cruz. “We don’t know who this adult is, whether it’s a parent or guardian, but either way, an adult should know better.”
