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Package Theft

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Bowie Police Bust County-Wide Package Theft Scheme

Greenbelt residents Anisha Wilson, 21, and Gary Jenkins, 21, are being charged with multiple counts of theft for stealing packages from homes.

Bowie police arrested two Greenbelt residents last week in connection a series of package thefts in Bowie and throughout Prince George’s County. Anisha Wilson, 21, and Gary Jenkins, 21, are facing multiple theft charges for allegedly stealing delivered packages from the homes of residents in Bowie and other areas of the county, according to police. Bowie police give this account of the investigation and subsequent arrest: During December 2012 and January 2013, Bowie police noted an increase in theft of packages delivered to residents. In response, the department conducted a coordinated effort to surveil and monitor the area where packages were being stolen. On Feb. 6, officers noticed a suspicious vehicle driving around the Rockledge and …

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Justyn Joseph

3:11 pm on Monday, April 22, 2013

where can u go to see a map of the sections of bowie? where is the M section?   more ›

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Bowie Police Arrest Two on Theft Charges

Two men from Capitol Heights are charged with stealing packages from porches in Bowie.

Bowie police charged two men in the theft of a package from a home on Jenny Brook Court last Thursday, according to a police report.  Officers arrested the two suspects, identified from a home surveillance tape, that showed them allegedly stealing the UPS package. Curtis Johnson, 18, and Tevin Smith, 20, both of Capitol Heights, were  charged with theft. Police arrested them during a traffic stop and found numerous packages belonging to Bowie residents in the backseat of their car, according to a police report. On Nov. 15, a victim on Jenny Brook Court called police and reported that a package had been stolen and gave police a surveillance tape that showed a man exiting a maroon Mercury Sable, running up onto the porch, stealing the …

Vanessa Troyer

8:40 pm on Wednesday, February 6, 2013

After becoming a victim of parcel theft in 1999 ourselves we decided that we needed to create a receptacle that could receive and protect our parcels being delivered to our home while we were at work. We wanted to be able to shop online without the concern that we would be victimized again. We knew that online shopping would only increase, and boy has it ever. This past Black Friday consumers …   more ›

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