{"id":23794,"date":"2025-11-03T23:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/23794\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T23:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:55:09","slug":"porch-pirate-targets-same-philadelphia-home-twice-in-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/23794\/","title":{"rendered":"Porch pirate targets same Philadelphia home twice in two days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/place\/west-philadelphia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:West Philadelphia;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">West Philadelphia<\/a> woman says she was targeted twice in two days by the same <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/tag\/porch-pirate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:porch pirate.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">porch pirate.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The guy just walked right up, had a bag, put my box in his bag, and was off,&#8221; said Christine Hibbard, about the theft that happened on Halloween. Surveillance footage shows a man taking a box of sneakers from her porch and walking away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hibbard said the same man returned the next day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Same bag, same black hoodie, same bald head. He grabbed it and left,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She believes the problem has worsened since the COVID-19 pandemic. Her neighbor has even posted a sign warning delivery drivers about thefts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As the holiday season approaches, package thefts are expected to increase. Some residents are taking matters into their own hands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;My packages were getting stolen. I was even working from home and within seconds, my packages were getting stolen. Obviously, it&#8217;s been a difficult problem in Philadelphia,&#8221; said Debbie Anday, who started a business called the Stash Spot in Fishtown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The store allows customers to have packages delivered there for safekeeping. Anday said the holiday season is her busiest time of year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Right now we&#8217;re starting to get ready, we installed a few more shelves, just getting ready for the rush,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hibbard is now considering using a secure delivery service, especially after being targeted twice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;He&#8217;s casing it, casing the neighborhood, I guess,&#8221; she said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A West Philadelphia woman says she was targeted twice in two days by the same porch pirate. &#8220;The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15792,69,71,70,14791,15793],"class_list":["post-23794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-christine-hibbard","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-porch-pirate","tag-surveillance-footage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}