West Hartford resident Stephanie Clemente said she was home last Friday when says her doorbell security system captured video of a man taking packages from right outside her door on Griswold Street.
“It’s an invasion of privacy, for sure,” she said. “It’s brazen. I mean, it was broad daylight. It was 11:30 in the morning, just waltzing right up, not a care in the world and picking up the packages and just leaving.”
Clemente says the packages, coffee pods and a Christmas gift, had just been dropped off minutes before.
“Unfortunately, I didn’t know the packages were delivered,” she said.
West Hartford Police are investigating that theft, along with four other package thefts that happened that very same day. Captain Mike Perruccio says police later recovered some of the stolen packages, including one of Clemente’s, opened and dumped in another part of town. He said they’re beefing up patrols, but you should protect your packages.
“Sometimes they’ll follow around those trucks delivering those packages, go up to your porch and take those packages,” Perruccio said. “Whether its cameras outside, or the new doorbells that have the cameras in them—all those things are things that a thief may potentially look at and say, well I'll go to the next house.”
If you have any information about the thefts, contact West Hartford Police.
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“The really unfortunate thing is that if it’s something sentimental or something that they can’t resell or use, that might mean a lot to me, but not to them, they just toss it,” Clemente said.
