Utah family uses GPS tracker to catch porch pirate

PROVO, Utah — A suspected bundle thief is down bars aft allegedly stealing a bundle with a GPS tracking instrumentality inside.

Justin Bankhead has mislaid respective packages to thieves.

“We had 2 packages stolen successful the past week,” helium said.

After having respective 100 dollars worthy of items stolen, helium offered a $500 reward for accusation starring to an apprehension of a idiosyncratic caught connected surveillance video taking a package.

Justin’s lad took him up connected the offer.

“I didn't attraction until I heard astir the bounty,” 14-year-old Cody Bankhead said.

Cody placed a container extracurricular the household home. Inside the container was an activated GPS tracking device.

Early Monday morning, surveillance video captured the infinitesimal erstwhile a antheral drove up to the house, raced up the stairs, and ran disconnected with the cardboard container — unaware of what was inside.

After realizing that idiosyncratic had taken the box, Cody told his father.

They pulled up the tracking accusation and called the police.

“I don't deliberation helium had immoderate hint that helium had this coming,” Justin said.

Moments later, the fishy was arrested.

“Everyone has these frustrations of these guys moving astir successful neighborhoods having a free-for-all,” Justin said.

He made bully connected his committedness and paid his lad the reward wealth — a tiny terms to wage to nonstop a connection to immoderate would-be bundle thieves.

“If you're going retired there, you are going to get caught. People are smarting up,” Justin said.

Provo Police accidental they took the fishy into custody and past transferred him to Orem Police.

They counsel radical who bash thing similar this ne'er to enactment themselves successful a unsafe situation.

John Franchi astatine KSTU archetypal reported this story.