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Package delivery driver steals $16,000 worth of packages, wins lifetime genius award [View all]
I made up the genius award part, but wow, he never thought there might be software monitoring and matching missing package reports with drivers and flagging unusually high levels?
Twin Cities delivery driver would mark packages as delivered before stealing them, charges say, CBS Minnesota, 10/9/25
. . . Charging documents say the man was the delivery driver for more than $16,000 in merchandise listed as delivered that was reported missing by customers.
Minneapolis police responded to a report of a suspected package theft involving a delivery driver on Aug. 18 and learned about the delivery driver who had been involved in several incidents where packages marked as delivered were never received by purchasers.
Charges say in one incident, a Target employee purchased a vacuum cleaner that they never received, despite it being reported delivered. The employee obtained surveillance video that allegedly showed the delivery driver taking a picture to confirm the delivery before leaving with the package.
Additionally, staff at an apartment building in downtown Minneapolis notified Target that a large number of empty shipping boxes from the retailer were found in the building's garbage, addressed to various places throughout the Twin Cities metro, according to charges.
Target was able to use the information from the packages to determine who the delivery driver for them had been and saw they had all been marked as delivered but reported missing by customers.
More: https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/shipt-delivery-driver-theft-charges-minneapolis/
. . . Charging documents say the man was the delivery driver for more than $16,000 in merchandise listed as delivered that was reported missing by customers.
Minneapolis police responded to a report of a suspected package theft involving a delivery driver on Aug. 18 and learned about the delivery driver who had been involved in several incidents where packages marked as delivered were never received by purchasers.
Charges say in one incident, a Target employee purchased a vacuum cleaner that they never received, despite it being reported delivered. The employee obtained surveillance video that allegedly showed the delivery driver taking a picture to confirm the delivery before leaving with the package.
Additionally, staff at an apartment building in downtown Minneapolis notified Target that a large number of empty shipping boxes from the retailer were found in the building's garbage, addressed to various places throughout the Twin Cities metro, according to charges.
Target was able to use the information from the packages to determine who the delivery driver for them had been and saw they had all been marked as delivered but reported missing by customers.
More: https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/shipt-delivery-driver-theft-charges-minneapolis/
Oh, the article also mentioned that he lived in the apartment building where all the Target boxes were found.
Actually, the article makes no mention of any such software that ties delivery drivers to missing package reports, odd. As the excerpt above indicates, they caught him by other means.
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