{"id":17119,"date":"2016-11-27T09:58:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T14:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=17119"},"modified":"2016-11-27T09:58:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T14:58:39","slug":"video-riverbank-ca-package-thief-shamed-on-social-media-but-other-crooks-await-cyber-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/11\/27\/video-riverbank-ca-package-thief-shamed-on-social-media-but-other-crooks-await-cyber-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Riverbank, CA package thief shamed on social media, but other crooks await Cyber Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modbee.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article104626611.html\/video-embed\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>About a month ago, Riverbank residents caught on a security video a woman stealing a package that had just been delivered to their front porch.<\/p>\n<p>The residents turned over the video, and Detective Jon Gingerich posted it on the Riverbank Police Services\u2019 online site. He also distributed it to the media, including modbee.com. Then Facebook users began sharing it and, well, you can pretty much guess what followed.<\/p>\n<p>A few days later, the thief returned the package. Questions asked, but no charges filed. What caused this sudden change of heart?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople who recognized her blew it up,\u201d he said. \u201cShe got phone calls from somebody she knows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comments left on the Facebook pages were absolutely brutal, shaming her in just about every way possible. Gingerich wouldn\u2019t release her name because she won\u2019t be prosecuted. But he said he\u2019s had several discussions with her since \u2013 she pleaded to have the video taken down from the various sites \u2013 and he thinks she learned a valuable lesson:<\/p>\n<p>Pilfer packages from porches, and expect no pity from the public. And also know that you soon could become an online celebrity in a very bad way. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modbee.com\/news\/local\/news-columns-blogs\/jeff-jardine\/article117272403.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17120\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/riverbank-theft.jpg\" alt=\"riverbank-theft\" width=\"456\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/riverbank-theft.jpg 456w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/riverbank-theft-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/riverbank-theft-86x54.jpg 86w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/riverbank-theft-122x74.jpg 122w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/riverbank-theft-120x74.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, Riverbank residents caught on a security video a woman stealing a package that had just been delivered to their front porch. The residents turned over the video, and Detective Jon Gingerich posted it on the Riverbank Police Services\u2019 online site. He also distributed it to the media, including modbee.com. Then Facebook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17121,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17119\/revisions\/17121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}