Washington officers use bait boxes to lure porch pirates

THURSTON COUNTY, Wash. — An undercover operation in the South Sound aims to capture porch pirates this holiday season.

Postal inspectors are using bait boxes to stop thieves in their tracks by luring them in with the very boxes they’re out to steal.

Bait boxes are designed to look like any other packages. The difference is, officers are tracking the bait boxes, and they know the second someone grabs one.

“If you take them, you’re going to get arrested by us,” said John Wiegand, U.S. postal inspector. More at KIRO

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