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Dallas Porch Theft Turns Out To Be Delivery Driver Who Dropped Off Package At Wrong House, Police Say

UPDATED: April 27, 2020, 10:40 A.M. - After police first believed this was a package theft, a report from April 22 turned out to be a delivery driver who had placed the package at the wrong house, according to the department. Police first reported this case as a person who stole a package from a home in northwest Dallas. However, police later discovered the person in question was the delivery driver who had dropped off the package at the wrong address.

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Dallas police are searching for the person who not only wasn't adhering to stay at home orders, but took the time outside to steal a package of a homeowner's porch.

The person was caught on camera committing the porch theft on April 19.

It was around 8:15 p.m. when the person casually walked onto the victim's front porch, in the northwest part of Dallas around Royal Lane and Webb Chapel Road, and took a package that had just been delivered.

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