People are beginning to holiday shop and send out presents to try and beat to rush this year. Here's how you can help protect yourself against porch pirates.
next tonight here, the bust, catching thieves stealing holiday packages at your door. matt gutman with the team behind the bust tonight. hey, stop! put that back! reporter: they re the brazen thieves that strike in broad daylight and in the dead of night. the holidays are peak season for porch pirates. most of the time, these package thieves are just going random doorstep to doorstep. they re just taking the packages. they don t even know what they re taking. reporter: we teamed up with the anaheim police department on a sting operation. we are putting in two brand new iphones. reporter: along with these iphones, worth about $1,000, they plant a gps tracker inside the package. trap is set. there is the bait. and as soon as this package moves even a couple of feet, it s going to trigger an alarm that will go off at dispatch and the dispatchers are going to let officers know that this thing s on the move. this police body camera footage shows anaheim officers booking suspecte
put it down. go away. sara porch pirates have targeted communities all across the dmv but the holiday season prevents presents even more opportunities. have you ever ever had the package stolen? i ve not that my neighbor did sara please spend a few minutes asking people if they ve been visited by package thieves and it didn t take long. i m sitting on the porch resting and i go back inside after the pact which was delivered and i come back outside 20 minutes later the package is gone. somebody stole it from my front porch and i never got to see those things. i was pretty heartbreaking. don t think people should take things from other peoples houses even if it s not inside the house but according to statewide.com the top or metro areas most target i package pilfers include san francisco, salt lake city portland oregon and baltimore. d.c. was number six on a similar list last year so here s what you can do to help avoid losing
put it down. go away. sara porch pirates have targeted communities all across the dmv but the holiday season prevents presents even more opportunities. have you ever ever had the package stolen? i ve not that my neighbor did sara please spend a few minutes asking people if they ve been visited by package thieves and it didn t take long. i m sitting on the porch resting and i go back inside after the pact which was delivered and i come back outside 20 minutes later the package is gone. somebody stole it from my front porch and i never got to see those things. i was pretty heartbreaking. don t think people should take things from other peoples houses even if it s not inside the house but according to statewide.com the top or metro areas most target i package pilfers include san francisco, salt lake city portland oregon and baltimore. d.c. was number six on a similar list last year so here s what
folks there at the bagram airfield in afghanistan. a surprise visit kept under wraps successfully until the president was on the ground and speaking to the troops and know we are told the president s impact on his way back to the united states. after serving dinner to troops in afghanistan. julie: don t you know it, the holidays are here faster than ever had with black friday and cyber monday ahead of us, watch out for porch pirates. evan lambert from our washington, d.c., affiliate explains what a is a porch pirates and how to avoid becoming a victim. today a lot of people have these doorbell cameras, you think it would prevent package theft but we ve seen package thieves hard at work. d.c. managed to not be on the list of most targeted cities. porch pirates have targeted communities all across the dmv about the holiday season presents even more opportunity. have you ever had a package