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Two South Boston men charged as I Street package thieves
By adamg on Wed, 03/21/2018 - 2:20pm
Boston Police report arresting two men they say went up I Street yesterday stealing packages, then turned onto East 2 Street to rip open their booty.
Police say officers - aided by an off-duty officer who spotted the two - found Nicholas Bennett, 26, and Kevin Berry, 31, both of South Boston, holding unopened packages in front of 555 East 2 St. around 4:10 p.m.
Officers could clearly see one of the packages was addressed to a female, and when asked how the suspects knew the female, Berry told the officers he found the package in the snow. Upon further investigation, officers observed several torn packages only a few feet away from both suspects. All packages were addressed to various locations along I street, and none of which was addressed to the suspects.
Officers were able to recover several stolen packages containing various items, including electronics and clothing worth than more than $1,000.00.
Both were charged with five counts of larceny from a building, two counts of receiving stolen property over $250 and three counts of receiving stolen property less than $250, police say.
Innocent, etc.
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"...onto East 2 Street to rip open their booty."
There is just so much wrong with that phrase.
Package Pirates?
Woodna dat be in da South End, matey? Arrrrgh.
Warms my heart
to hear of a package pirate getting busted. We had a projector stolen out of our front entryway last year, in Lower Allston.
I've sometimes found empty cardboard boxes sitting on top of our recycling bin around the side of the house, which was a bit of a mystery. In retrospect, those were probably plundered packages from nearby houses. -.-
The solution
Mind if I ask...
What street in LA? I also live in the neighborhood and have been worried about this, but *knocks on wood* so far so good.
Franklin St
It's a main travelway, so it's higher exposure, but it also means more chances for witnesses.
Yup.
People who rip other people off don't deserve to go free. They deserve to be punished...period!
It ought to be an automatic
It ought to be an automatic felony charge.
Automatic felony?
Really? I can be tough-on-crime with the best of em, but stealing a package, that was left unsecure in the first place, that while it could be valuable, also could be worth $5.99?
In that case, what in your book should be a misdemeanor?
Until today I thought
Until today I thought stealing mail was invariably a felony. I learned otherwise. I think even the theft of a Christmas card should be a felony charge.
larceny from a building is always a felony.
judges vary on this though. Package thieves will often only be charged with the misdemeanor though, depending on the contents of the package.
Amazon Locker
Amazon Locker has a location (nearest to this crime) at the Southend Whole Foods on Harrison Ave. It's a sure way to avoid porch pirates. Depending where delivered packages are left on your property... it's a safe bet for high value items!
LOL. At least Amazon was
LOL. At least Amazon was aware of the neighborhood when they decided where to install a locker. Smart.
Way more convenient than Davy
Way more convenient than Davy Jones’ Locker.
Good luck
It has been booked solid 100% of the 3 or 4 times I've tried to have a package dropped there.
Where do drug dealers keep
Where do drug dealers keep all the stolen merchandise when the addicts give it to them for drugs? How long do they keep the stuff? This happens everywhere when a jonesing addict steals for his or her next high. Always wondered about that. Some dealers will strictly only take cash but there are others who take merchandise.
Drug dealers take cash.
The package thief will sell the contents to a fence at about 25% of the cost. The fence has an outlet as to where they will sell their stolen goods, if they are good, they can make a lot of money selling them online, or if they can sell them to other fences or stores that might will simply pay cash for new items.
That's right. I used to sell
That's right. I used to sell designer shit to the spanish hair salons.