Police have caught and arrested a real-life Grinch suspected of preying on people ordering Christmas gifts.
Residents of Nassau County, Long Island, had been getting nasty surprises when they opened packages delivered to their porches.
Instead of the gifts for loved ones, the boxes contained old shoes, clothes, and trash—courtesy of a local “Grinch,” who was swapping these useless packages for the original ones.
Local police call such thieves “porch pirates.”
Malverne Police announced on Dec. 7 the arrest of Peter Lee Dunbar of Jamaica Queens for the theft of the packages from “numerous” Nassau communities.
A week earlier the police department had warned residents to be careful after a spate of thefts in the area.
“The subject carries a package with him to the front door that is filled with old clothes, shoes or other trash and leaves that package there while removing the homeowners delivery,” wrote the Malverne Police in a statement.
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Dunbar has been connected to other larcenies in the surrounding communities, said the police.
