I thought it was a box empty box and when I picked it up I thought it was just trash inside you feel like picked up like trash are all these boxes empty some of them are promise you I can probably F them no I probably I probably I said they're deep this porch pirate kept a stolen Victoria Secret package in a place it should have never been you want to get my panties up I mean Jesus Christ on October 16th 2023 officers arrived in a neighborhood after a woman complained that her neighbor stole her delivery package so that's their front porch there's the package okay that little black thing right there yeah and so um you can't get to their front porch because it's gated off so I went to the side door and I knocked m a younger girl came to the door probably close to my size um and I asked for it they they gave me all the we weren't even home blah blah blah blah blah and then she she said okay I said well I'm going to call the police she goes well you can call Victoria Secret and I never once said where it was from I just said a pack okay what's inside the package if you don't mind me asking um is it like a whole laundry list of things oh yeah like um let's see if it shows the like all of this stuff it's $400 worth of stuff okay the woman didn't want to say but she ordered 15 underwear items which got dropped at her neighbor's front porch only to then go missing this wasn't that unusual as people can keep their neighbors packages while waiting for them but this neighbor claimed not to have seen the package even though she knew exactly what was inside I'm giving you guys the opportunity if you guys did take it to just give it back because if you don't I'm going to do a theft report and all three of you are going to be listed as suspects and that's $400 worth of stuff so either we give it back now nobody gets in trouble or I figure out who stole it and they're going to get charged that's what we're doing okay okay that's how we're going to handle this if we find it and we know who took it it will be returned that's not how we're handling this we find out who took it they're being charged with theft okay we're not doing this oh you got me I'm on camera I took it I'm going to give it back now they're going to be charged with theft I I will arrest them for theft I'm not playing around okay so either give it back now or we're doing I'm listing all three of you as suspects okay okay driver's license all three of them after no one owned up to taking the package the officer had to check out the neighbors's ring doorbell camera and arrest the package Thief but before he could get to that the family door opened up again to reveal something daring she ordered the things that actually got delivered here she came to show up was already gone do you have information I I didn't get that for you I'm kind of waiting to see if they come out with the object and be like oh you know here it is your package is on way out all right did you hear that yes thank you perfect I'd rather handle it this way I totally agree we had nothing to do with this all right thank you she's going to make sure that all stuff is in here yeah I'm going to go sort of in my I'll just I'll stand by just in case who took the package who took it yeah like it was on your porch and you just grabbed it or like a mistake or something well grab by a mistake by my husband and I'm the one who had it on the floor and I never even noticed the name I thought it was my daughter I didn't even look because she does a lot of stuff I don't know about okay with mounting pressure the woman brought out the missing package even though she strongly denied stealing it that didn't seem to matter though as the package was now returned to its rightful owner but this case was over just yet all right she's missing about five things what's she missing I can ask her they're all different itemized things so I'll have to tell me I think you need to go ask I suspect Whoever has them knows what they are yeah if she could tell me just go check with right now she said that she has nothing else you need to call Victoria Secret on that one and I believe her because I used to order from Victoria Secret all the time and the whole order did not come because okay she need to she needs to check down I used to order and he would get this so that's what you think is most reasonable yeah what makes the most sense to you right now yeah it does because she was scared that she she didn't she didn't steal it no while shipping mishaps do occur from time to time the officers were doubtful because the woman had already lied to them once they felt her daughter had the missing items and was trying to play them into believing her but that plan had very terrible consequences they didn't even cooperate until you threaten to arrest them look like exactly what happened I didn't want my husband going to jail for something I didn't want well somebody's going to go to jail you guys obviously aren't fessing up and giving all the items back I'm giving all the items back everything that no hang on everything got five more that are missing okay I'm telling you Victoria's Secret is missing that not me they've done that you can check my own you can check everywhere I have nothing but Victoria Secret I get it if it was like one thing but five come seven ite sir I will go down there and look again if you want me to I I sure hope you do this is your last chance if you don't come up with those five things you're being arrested why am I being arrested cuz we're not playing this game missing she's not playing the game I'm not playing a game I don't have ja I have Aid wait a minute she's got a daughter and I have a new job nothing to do with this yes it does don't want to go back to jail I'll go to prison you understand I for Victoria SEC go downstairs and make sure I did I checked everything she's going to stay wait a second can I say something I'm tired of saying stuff this is I would go I here Megan hey stay out here we're still talking to you you're St she is not giving you I'm giving you instructions to stay right here do you understand why people are I mean stop I'm talking did you all shut the separate Meg come down no I'm not coming down with CPS you are wait why what am I going to do stop come on no what don't touch me don't touch me what am I going to do what am I doing what am I no what are you doing you yelling you taking me to jail we're not taking you to jail you detaining you right now until we figure this all out oh my God stop y stop please give me out of hangups this I'm better Bo out I'm seriously going to have an anxiety attack ma'am I don't have your order take a deep breath shut up stop I don't have the order where's the rest of the ship I don't know I miss seven items out of my order I this is not a first for Victoria Secret stop stop stop I have no reason to lie all of us want to leave and get on with our day that's what we all want you want to get my panties up I mean Jesus Christ that's what we want where's the rest of the St I don't have them I don't believe you can I okay thanks a lot mom no no go check check my drawer mom go check my drawer the officers had been trying to solve a missing underwear case for over 20 minutes and weren't going to believe anything from the family they already caught lying once so since the items weren't found Megan would have to go to jail but the threat of jail time already helped move the case forward before and it would do so again you're coming in for theft coming in h you're coming in for theft what I mom mom mom go check my drawer go check my drawer no can I go check my drawer I can I promise you I can probably find them oh you remember where it's at now no I promise I probably I said they're deep let go look can you take this out let's go no you're staying in the C let's go look can you go with her mom can she go with me let's go we all go how about that it'll be a big family party come on stop yelling please please no I asked him if I could go ining the same volume she's talking calm down no we can't come herey do they want to take me in for theft can you let go of my arm please so I can look can you open that's not mine mom you didn't look cuz there's not there's stuff in here that's not mine right here that one not mine this one's not mine I didn't know that yeah you didn't look all the way this is not mine wait hang on I have a pair like this that's Jord no that's brand new mom you didn't look at this no I didn't see him sorry she didn't look at that and hang on open this drawer I threw something in here this one oh you gota open both handles they're antique it's antique top one is this yours yeah that's mine mom I got that that's a um from the thrift store sorry Mom I told you I threw them in between shirts look wait a minute right there no there's one right here I told you I I you didn't check she normally checks to see how I fold and everything and honestly I just threw them in there right the shirts mom five more items we got there four is there something else no there's nothing else I swear to God here check in just one item missing what how do you know what she's missing what is she missing exactly does she have the order cuzz I don't know what I'm looking for here let's do it the easy way what doesn't belong to you that's all my underwear mine my underwear now that's all my underwear now so what else is she missing she doesn't even know sh quick cussing at you feel me she doesn't even have her order number Megan calm you are in no positional like I know I'm just saying I'm not at you it's like to you like understand frustrated both just stop talking get your finger off me stop stop God I mean are you guys serious after a suspiciously fast search four out of the five missing items were found and the family denied knowing where the last item was with their past history no one would believe that but with 14 out of 15 items the case was now in the hands of the victim to decide if she would press charges against the family or not an action that could send Megan to jail so since you have the items back now well except for the one which yeah you still want to do the prosecution then I can't force you to go one way but I mean she she was going to steal my stuff though yeah you know I mean I just don't think that people should get away with that I don't know I don't steal people okay um so like a yes then cuz we kind of need a definitive yes yes yes I and I gave it the icely all right so she still wants a desire prosecution for the one item that's missing are you kidding me I don't have it the thing is we had to go through all of this just to even get the package back I told her where to check no I told her where to take no don't take me in no wait let go well we're pass what if you're hurting and with a decision to press charges the victim left the family with one more thread of jail time and this would uncover something truly disturbing help help you're hurting what if I paid for Mom no hand let go okay what is going to happen is it the underwe you gave me Mom for how long ma'am is it ask if it's a pink pair ask her if it's pink pair underwear ask her I'm wearing them oh my ask her if it's a pink pair underwear I'll take them off she just for no no Mom you gave me a pink pair of underwear is that coming out of the package did it yeah yeah it did ma'am I have him can you please tell her ma'am I have him can you please my I don't have any shoes on mom mom mom take a seat oh my God help me mom can you please tell that lady my mom gave me the pink PA underwear after if those are it can you ask her before you take me in can you sir can you Megan was wearing stolen underwear and asked if she could return it and not go to jail she obviously wouldn't get an answer and was instead taken to jail and charged with theft she was able to steal and even use the stolen items but the next porch pirate was caught right in the middle of the theft put it down but still tried to defend himself with some of the dumbest Stories the cops would ever hear it wasn't an empty box I don't know when I lifted it up I thought it was all trash okay on November 30th 2022 Los cruus police were monitoring a neighborhood for illegal activity when they unexpectedly caught a man stealing a package from an apartment front put it down hey F turn around Qui keep your hands up keep your hands up what I doing keep your hand back there isn't that ours that's ours brother put your hand behind your back that's not ours I'm not going to ask any questions right now relax relax the whole thing I know the man unaware he was being watched walked up to the package walked away then back again and grabbed it he already gave a story claiming he thought that it was his but this is the first of many embarrassing stories he would tell as he didn't even know the house he was staying at it's at the very end it's 215 2:15 I believe Rico's place no not not Rico no well he lives in 15 215 no he he does he yes he does oh no it's not 215 it's 218 dud obviously we know it's 218 is like the last two it's the last two before you hit the last 218 vacant um all right 211 Hold on hold on and I kind of figured you guys were watching you too I was like and I thought that was an empty box honestly I need it I thought it was an empty box back the cops had been closely monitoring the area so Gabriel wouldn't get very far lying to them but this was excusable though as he was caught off guard so he could claim to be anxious however after a walk to the patrol car Gabriel had enough time to think and that resulted in a huge disaster wherever it came from okay I went over there I saw one of my friends I got that cigarette off my friend and then when I was walking around the corner he he asked me um cuz he's moving MH and that's what I was going to go do I was going to go help him move okay and I I just saw the box there and I figured I'll go get the box cuz you need boxes to move yes did it yeah well when I lifted it up I thought it was trash at first and then and then when you guys came to like when you guys roll on me I I noticed that it was a closed package yeah and I I was like oh dang like I didn't I didn't think at the moment what it was mhm until when I saw you guys okay and then that's when I that's why I didn't run or nothing cuz I know that's I I was okay well I appreciate that I thought it honestly I thought it was trash man that's what I really thought it was even though it was sealed up and everything no it didn't look sealed yeah come on over here bro it didn't it didn't look sealed brother it didn't look sealed okay but it feel like didn't feel like it obviously wasn't an empty box it I don't know when I lifted it up I thought it was all trash I I don't do those type of things you know like I don't try and grab Sil packages like that I'm not I thought it was just a box that was empty but I thought it was trash when I lifted it I didn't think at the moment you know what I mean cuz I that's that's what people do is that they leave their trash right there in front of the door you would think that people would like take their boxes in and stuff you know Gabriel's wellth thought out story was that he wanted to load his friend's clothing into a sealed box of trash found on a neighborhood's front porch this was somehow supposed to prove his innocence but instead proved that Gabriel was a porch pirate headed for jail man please give me a break on this man I didn't know any better man I come on man please care about my live man I didn't mean to do any lening man I I was just looking out for a box bro I thought it was trash that's what people usually do is leave their trash out there you thought it was a box I thought it was a box empty box and when I picked it up I thought it was just trash inside what do you feel like when you picked it up like trash like I I didn't really realize what it was some heavy trash brother I just got out of jail what you jail for for a warrant brother what was it was U it was trop liting I guess no but wait no no it wasn't steing I wasn't even C with that brother like oh yeah but you did it no I didn't do it Gabriel have a seat please man you're like like tripping me out right now brother I didn't mean to do this I just get a break you're going to jail you're not getting a break you're going to jail today can you do me favor and take a seat am I really going to jail today put your feet inside and put this you guys can't give me a break on this man I didn't know better dude look to your look over that way brother I didn't know any better Brother come on man I just got out of jail bro I was looking for a Rel man just chill I can't man I just got out of jail Gabriel still doesn't believe he was arrested and charged with Larsen up to $500 and booked into the County Detention Center if you're enjoying this video please like And subscribe Gabriel's Escape Plan was centered around acting dumb but this 23-year-old porch Pirates Escape Plan was being a grown-up child and she wasn't even acting can you guys s my mom location please she doesn't need your location yes she does how old are you I'm 23 all right well I'm still need a enough on the night of November 27th 2023 officers over a suspicious vehicle after multiple homes reported people stealing packages from porches I don't know why why are we being asked if we have guns well stop right there first off you're driving without any tail lights second off we keep getting reports of people stealing packages off of porches where all these boxes come from we were building gingerbread houses I got them out the recycling I just stopped right there and got some from where right there where I I just pass the police set he's under age he's only 15 okay so when we go watch these videos from all the ring cameras of people stealing off the porches is it going to be him cuz he's wearing a mask just like the person in the videos no that's cuz he keeps his hair down so he's wearing a ski mask cuz he cold outside yes it's he does in car why he's the one who does my deliver you have a driver's license on you no sir my mom does can I please just have her no what's your name tayor Taylor seemed extremely anxious and there was a very glaring reason for this there were tens of Amazon packages all over her back seat and the vehicle trunk and the officers wondered how many houses she'd stolen from but Taylor knowing that her explanation got her nowhere did what she knew how to do best mommy please come here I'm sending you my location are all these boxes empty some of them are no mommy you open the doors for me what's your name I'm scared Taylor can I please step out Cal just sit down just calm down mommy please come here F last name last name last name please Tay said Nicole yes sit down hold on I need to breathe I'm sorry I have bad anxiety mommy can you tell them sit down I'm trying to you're not I'm sitting down you need to start listening okay I'm trying to sir I'm sorry Taylor and Nicole my anxiety is really bad I'm about to faint all right at this point go step out for me put your phone right there for me Mommy what's going on you're being detained as well mommy no mommy go to my house come get my phone your together my boyfriend my dogs put the back of your put the back of your hands can you guys send my mom my location please he doesn't need know your location yes she does how old are you I'm 23 all right well she don't need to know Mommy please come give me a please Mom at 23 it was shocking to see Taylor so dependent on her mom after committing such an embarrassing act but there was a lot more that's concerning about Taylor's case she wasn't the only one involved in the theft did you guys just start no I I just started I promise so how do you know him I don't know him for real I was just what's his name how old is he he's only 15 investigating okay can you please let me know what's gonna happen to me can I get like cited can I get a you're 23 yes sir I have work and I have dogs and a kid at home so why are you out doing this because I was trying to make my rent money and I didn't I was scared cuz the lady just texted me and told me she needed some money who the rent lady you could go check my phone she just said she needed money so how do you know this kid like how did he get ried into helping you steal packages because I was helping his mom asked me to help her while she got on her feet and so she was staying with me but she didn't help me with nothing and I'm trying federal law for child labor states that children between 14 and 16 may be employed in allowed occupations during Limited hours stealing packages off people's porches was not an allowed occupation an 8pm was definitely past the Limited hours for a 15-year-old so aside from stealing Taylor could be charged for endangering a person younger than 18 placed under her care I don't know what to do that's why I want to talk to my mom I take a citation and go to court or whatever it takes I can't go to [Music] jail I'm sorry who's at home with your kids no nobody it's his other brother it's his brother there's Twins and they're like kids to me and I shouldn't have had him out doing this so they're not your actual kids no I'm trying to get custody of them their mom said she was going to go to court for me and she never went to court for me to get custody so I've been doing it why would you get custody of them because she asked me for temp her with temporary custody Taylor was arrested on multiple charges related to the theft of packages from at least seven individuals porches and the involvement of the minor entrusted to her care only added to the severity of the charges but like Taylor theft charges weren't enough for the next porch pirate as he would break into someone's house and start living there only to come up with the craziest story for the officers so I don't really believe the story you're telling me is 100% truthful on January 6th 2023 Flagler County sheriff's deputies were called to an apartment complex regarding a man who had stolen water bottles from a home do you how many water bottles was full that was full that was full so whatever were those part of it yeah I don't know what he did he came over and placed them and I think put the lids over there okay this was full and closed that was full and closed missing seven so that's that's what was missing yeah he didn't have permission to take any of those no and then when I saw him in the camera he was across the street and I asked him I said hey who are you what do you want and then he started to approach and I said that's it and then called 911 and came back in the house you spoke so you spoke to him face could you identify him the porch pirate not only stole from this man but also threatened him in his own home the man described the suspect but the officers had no way to begin a search for him but as they drove down the neighborhood they saw a ladder against the second floor of a home and at the top was a man getting into the window did you live here okay any chance you were out here a little bit ago yeah far left okay is there if you come down I can talk to you do you have any ID with you no sir I don't I upstairs what's that I got upstairs okay all right you got no weapons on your right is it okay if my partner passs you down while I get your name you may and if stick me pick me poke me any explosive bomb missiles no sir and what was your first name sir gonalez and this is your daughter's house she said yes Ricardo claimed his daughter rented the home and he was staying there for a while but he had to gain entry using the ladder because he lost the home keys this was a very unusual situation but it became very hard to believe as Ricardo knew nothing about his daughter including how to spell her name the ezt it's a little low volume but I think you can hear you how you said b z I'm not sure how to spell her last uh marriage thing okay Ricardo didn't know how to spell his daughter's name didn't know where she was and didn't even have her phone number but something quite strange is that he appeared defeated almost as if he knew that his story was fooling no one but himself you're coming from day okay what are you walking up here from Daytona for uh get out of okay so you decided to sneak into a gated community and enter a house that doesn't belong to you bre told me had rent it off come on man you think you think this is my first day on the job not like that not that I mean I'm going to tell you right now I don't believe a word it's coming out of your mouth I saw you walking on A1A about 5 hours ago so where do you live in Daytona I don't live any Daytona so you're homeless yes okay and about four or five hours ago I saw you walking up A1 a now all of a sudden you've got a ladder listen to me okay let's try to do that for a second okay as Law Enforcement Officers you understand that we make our living out of determining whether or not people are being truthful or not right I've been doing this a long time you're not being truthful how about anything what's your daughter's phone number I don't know I'm so how'd you get in touch with your daughter to be able to come to this bed and breakfast I already made kind arrangements and how did you make those arrangements using someone else's phone so you called your daughter using someone else's phone and what number did you dial to call your daughter Ricardo was obviously being dishonest and by now the cops had gotten the memo he likely didn't have a daughter and decided to break into the empty home for shelter taking him to jail was the next step for the officers but since he tried to deceive them and failed they would do the same and show him just how it's done I'm not ready get angry anything take me to is based on the story you're telling us why on Earth would we take you to jail why would someone go to jail for going to bed and breakfast with their daughter I think these are pretty reasonable questions right what's that so these are pretty reasonable questions no yeah I'm I'm lost to words of course when we go in there there'll be some luggage your daughter's luggage your luggage maybe her boyfriend's luggage my cook bag few things that I have and that's it and their stuff should be in there too I'm guessing no why wouldn't their stuff be in there if they're staying here for the weekend or something I just feel like if I went with three people other two people have some things you know what saying are you getting bored of this they're G yeah I understand they went to get breakfast where they go to get breakfast the officers had played Ricardo at his own game and once satisfied they arrested him for burglary of a dwelling criminal mischief and petty theft but on December 18th 2021 when people expected Christmas gifts at their doorstep this college student was taking packages from people's porches only to then gift them to his friends it's like Christmas time and you going to regi stuff potentially and his capture started with a simple traffic stop hey how we doing today we doing pretty good how you doing doing well you got your driver's license on your sir yeah and can I ask what you're doing today um I'm driving home I just got back from work okay driving home yes where you stay at and you said you're getting off work where's work at so what are you doing over here then um I'm driving through I got to meet a friend um right at Five Points and then I usually drop off stuff we're doing a secret santa kind of deal so I got to go get Condor choc why don't you stop back there back here yeah because there was somebody pulling up in front of me I was trying to make sure that I wasn't like getting in anybody's way nobody was pulling up in front of you you stop turning on your hazards and then I passed you any weapons or anything in the car no all right sweet hang tight although the male wasn't doing a very good job of appearing unsuspicious at the time the officers didn't know he was a porch pirate but once he received ring doorbell cam videos of him stealing a package at a home front minutes ago he knew what needed to be done you want to go ahead and step out you can leave it on off however you want to do it I'm just going to roll this up so it doesn't get all W okay let me tell you what's going on okay so that you're well aware we have lots of video footage from people stealing packages um you're wearing exactly what they just described as a theft that took place 3 4 minutes ago oh yeah yeah black shirt short sleeve black mask the photos that we have from The Ring cameras look exactly like you and you're driving the same car with the same Chrome outline on the Windows as what we have so right now you're fitting our suspect description very well you're in the area and it just occurred and you stopped in front of that other house that had two packages on the front porch okay so therefore we're going to investigate this a little further we're going to figure out what exactly is going on okay and um we're probably going to end up searching the car your car to see if the package is in there the one that was just stolen so do you have anything in the car that I need to know about or do you want to go ahead and come clean and say yeah I just took that package out the porch or is there anything you want to say to kind of defend yourself right now um well I will say I did take a package okay um my house way back there on the ways yeah just a couple minutes ago right yes mhm you still have that package in your car yeah okay sounds good go ahead and put your hands behind your back real quick since he stole the items minutes before being pulled over flying was a very futile effort as the evidence against him was sitting in Clear View through his car window so the officers detained him and searched his vehicle where they found everything from personal mail to women's Cosmetics oh you don't think that's his lipstick oh it might be you want to ask him no I don't think it's his you can go and ask him the officers found different packages with different addresses and different delivery dates and the suspect was taken in for questioning before the search though they were notified of a laptop stolen from a lady's car earlier that week and while it wasn't stolen from a porch the officers believed that the young male stole it this thing is like I have to afford school okay and you know I just am struggling and I mean that makes sense so you're it's a financial thing you're looking for stuff of value have you stolen anything out of a car recently um no because we had a girl's laptop stolen from her car the other day and it was pinging you know you know how Apple products work it was pinging right there at your house I I'm just now putting all this together when we search your house are we going to find that girl's laptop you might okay during the search of his home officers found multiple laptops even more Amazon packages coats Liquors and other random things the suspect faced felony theft charges which were eventually dropped after he completed a pre-trial diversion program for $1,000