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After a number of reported mail and package thefts from front porches in the metro, one man said hes setting up a sting operation to catch the wanted thief.

Video: Army veteran setting up traps for thief

Im not just your 'Joe Blow' citizen, said John Karlin. Im a U.S. Army veteran with police training. Im going to get this guy myself.

Karlin has set up hidden cameras around his home and set out booby-trapped packages.

I dont just want to record him in the act, I want to catch him stealing my packages, he said.

His actions come after numerous reports of an unknown man stealing peoples mail.

The most recent incident happened this past Friday. Video surveillance from the Royal Oaks neighborhood near Northwest 16th and Rockwell shows a man stealing a box of diapers.

The man unidentified man pulled up in a white Pontiac Solstice convertible.

Whoever this guy is, we're going to catch him, said Karlin. I know how he walks. Ive got his vehicle. Weve got a tag number. We are looking for him.

Following KOCO 5s original report, new video of the suspect has surfaced. The surveillance video dates back to Jan. 15.

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Tiny Apalachicola is often overlooked by Florida visitors lured by the state's bigger tourist draws such as Disney World, South Beach and Key West.

Getting here isn't as easy as getting to the tourist hotspots. The closest commercial airports are a two-hour drive north to Tallahassee or a two-hour drive west to Panama City Beach. But the extra travel is worth the effort for anyone wanting to experience Florida as it was before all the highways, high-rises and high-end development.

The sparsely developed coastal stretch east from Panama City through Florida's Big Bend is also known as The Forgotten Coast.

The area is dotted with old Southern homes featuring wide front porches and yards filled with Spanish moss and magnolia trees.

Apalachicola is home to generations of oyster workers who still pull oysters from the shallow bay with shovel-length tongs and break the oysters apart with hammers. These oysters are known throughout the Gulf Coast for their unique blend of salt and sweetness.

The quaint downtown sits at the confluence of the Apalachicola River and Apalachicola Bay. Several blocks of old brick buildings feature a few gift and antique shops, restaurants and bars. The eateries all tout dishes made with fresh Apalachicola oysters.

A sunset walk through the downtown gives a sense of a Florida that is fast fading. Abandoned oyster processing houses, beat-up old boats, palm trees, pelicans and small pastel-painted houses dot the shoreline. Quirky old signs, surfboards and junk-yard art adorn front yards.

The town has a few bed- and-breakfasts and small hotels. Nearby St. George island and Cape San Blas have vacation cottage rentals.

The region isn't for anyone seeking a busy nightlife or amusement parks, but it is ideal for a quiet, out-of-the-way retreat.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio - What UPS delivers, Anthony Tiller is accused of taking away.

Starting in 2014, and spreading into this month, he's accused of taking items out of boxes left on porches.

Sarina Stickler is one of the victims.

A shop-vac was stolen from her front porch and Tiller was caught with it a few blocks down the street.

"After the theft had occurred and the police returned my package I got on there and did Kudos to the police department they were right on it," said Stickler.

Part of the reason they were right on it was because Julie Delia was right on it.

Delia said she watched him take items from a couple of houses on Mithoff Street including the shop vac.

She called police and followed him.

In fact she's the one who took the picture of him getting arrested.

"I was coming home in the middle of the afternoon, he was walking down the middle of the street, said Delia. Looking from house to house. I pulled over and he went over on a house and pulled a package off, opened it up, took the box, took what he had put it under his arm. Went two blocks down the street, did it again, had a huge box, threw it over his arm, by that time I had called the police department."

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By Audrey Hoffer February 27 at 7:30 AM

Fairlawn is a quiet community east of the Anacostia River in Southeast Washington.

About 6,000 people live on peaceful streets along Anacostia Park, which hugs the river. The neighborhood is a short drive from Capitol Hill via the 11th Street and Sousa bridges.

A feeling of calmness comes over you when you cross the bridge, said Carol Casperson, a 35-year resident and recording secretary for the Fairlawn Citizens Association (FCA).

People live here because they want to, said Diane Fleming, FCA treasurer, president of the Anacostia Garden Club and a resident for 50 years.

And they come here to stay, added Casperson. Three generations live in the house next to Flemings.

The neighborhoods housing stock is varied it includes semi-detached and detached houses, condominiums and rental apartments. Modest brick rowhouses dating from the 1920s, 30s and 40s many with front porches and white awnings dominate. Because the porches are next to each other, you say hello to your neighbors, Casperson said.

Gaining new attention: In the late 1800s, Fairlawn was suburban or even rural in character, with large gardens and estates owned exclusively by whites. In the 1920s, it was a bedroom community for people working west of the river, especially at the Washington Navy Yard, and was still mostly white, according to Graylin Presbury, FCA president and author of Fairlawn: From the Flats to the Heights.

Were one of the first developed communities east of the river off Capitol Hill, he said.

Anacostia High School was desegregated in 1955, then the neighborhood followed suit in the mid-1960s. This was one of the last neighborhoods east of the river to integrate, he said.

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A 33-year-old Crescent City man was arrested Tuesday on a charge of cruelty to a child after his 7- and 8-year-old sons were hit and forced to sleep on porches outside their Browns Fish Camp Road home, according to the Putnam County Sheriffs Office.

Jose Dolores Rodriguez is in jail on no bail, according to the Sheriffs Office.

Deputies were called to Middleton Burney Elementary School at 10 a.m. in reference to a child-abuse complaint and found that a 7-year-old boy had come to school with a bruise on his face, the Sheriffs Office said. The boys 8-year-old brother told teachers that their father had slapped each of them three to four times in the face for arguing, then forced one to sleep on the front porch and the other on the back porch, the Sheriffs Office said. Overnight temperatures dipped into the low 50s in that area, according to forecasts.

The father was questioned by detectives, then arrested, the Sheriffs Office said.

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Wendy Wiiks, grants administrator for the city of Leominster, stands in front of the historic Drake House, which was used in the underground railroad. Wiiks is applying for grants to help restore the building. SENTINEL & ENTERPRISE / Ashley Green

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LEOMINSTER -- An architectural firm has estimated that it will cost about $1.2 million to restore the historic Drake House to how it appeared in 1851, when it hosted fugitive slave Shadrach Minkins.

Wendy Wiiks, the city's grant administrator, said the restoration plan is the first step in applying for grants to cover the cost of bringing the city-owned home, at 21 Franklin St., once used in the underground railroad, back to its original appearance.

"We'd never be able to get any grants unless we have a plan," Wiiks said Monday about the $60,000 assessment and feasibility study commissioned in August by the city and paid for with a $30,000 grant from the Massachusetts Historical Commission and an equal match by the city.

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The assessment, according to the Mattapoisett architectural firm Durland Van Voorhis, sought to "document the existing conditions both structurally and architecturally, to develop short, medium and long-term preservation priorities with their related costs and to develop a schematic design plan that would both preserve the Drake House and make its history more accessible to the city and its visitors."

The firm had outside consultants inspect and analyze all aspects of the 1 1/2-story home, which included determining its original structure and paint colors.

According to the assessment, much of the original Drake House remains as it was when it was first built: "Original doors and windows are still functioning and in generally good condition.

However, because the home was built 170 years ago, several dormers have been added, as have a couple of porches, and there is asbestos siding and aluminum panning that covers the exterior.

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