Authorities have charged a UPS employee with grand theft after he allegedly stole customer’s packages worth more than $1,500.
Police arrested Emmanuel Lamont Reggin, 18, Wednesday in connection to a string of robberies he allegedly orchestrated beginning Monday, according to NBC Miami.
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The seasonal worker was assisting a UPS driver with unloading 5,500 packages at a distribution center in Miami. According to a police report, Reggin allegedly grabbed a box containing two Kindles and hid them under a nearby dumpster. Authorities believe he later hid two other boxes — which had inside them an iPad 7 and a Surface Pro — by another dumpster for safekeeping.
Credit: Justin Sullivan
Credit: Justin Sullivan
Police acquired surveillance video of what appears to be Reggin returning to the dumpsters in a silver Nissan Altima and retrieving the three packages and driving away with them.
Reggin is believed to have repeated the dumpster-hiding thievery the next day. Authorities say he took boxes, including two PlayStation 4’s and an HP laptop computer, the following day.
The packages were worth more than $1,700, according to the police report obtained by the news station.
Authorities were tipped to Reggin’s alleged scheme to steal the items from a manager at the Nektova distribution center, who said someone told him about packages hidden near a dumpster just a few miles from the center.
Reggin faces one count of third-degree grand theft, and he is being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
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