A “stressed out” Amazon delivery driver from Massachusetts left about 80 packages in a wooded area in Lakeville, Massachusetts, police said.
Around 2 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 22, Lakeville Police Sgt. Shawn Robert noticed abandoned items in a wooded area, police said in a statement. Roberts investigated the scene and found three large bags full of Amazon packages.
Police officers loaded the purses into a pickup truck and conducted an inventory at the Lakeville Police Station. After counting over 80 packages, they contacted Amazon’s local fulfillment center in Middleborough, Massachusetts, to return them. There have been no reports of lost or stolen packages in the area.
Amazon packages left in the woods by a driver in Massachusetts.
Courtesy of the Lakeville Police Department
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“I would like to commend Sgt. Shawn Robert for his discovery of these unattended packages during a routine patrol,” said Lakeville Police Chief Matthew Perkins on Monday, December 23rd. “Sgt. Robert probably saved many local residents a Christmas headache by spotting these bags and returning them to Amazon, hopefully in time for holiday delivery.”
In another statement on Monday, Dec. 23, an Amazon driver arrived at the department and reported that he was the person who left the packages on the side of the road at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 21, “because they were stressed,” police said. .
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The police are not seeking criminal charges against the publicly unknown driver. The driver plans to report the incident to their manager, police said.
“I am proud of the way our Lakeville police officers handled and investigated this matter,” Perkins said in the update. “We are not seeking criminal charges at this time and consider this a human resources issue for Amazon.”
Earlier this week, a FedEx contract worker in Alabama was arrested for allegedly dumping vacation packages in the woods and on the side of the road. Latavion Lewis was taken into custody on charges of organized fraud, grand theft and illegal dumping and is no longer employed by FedEx.
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