SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) --

We've been calling them "porch pirates," and they've now come up with a new twist on the crime of the season.

Everyone has seen the video of packages taken off porches and doorsteps. That means we are on the alert and the bad guys are coming up with a new way to work this old rip-off.

It was a nice day Thursday in San Francisco's Sunset District. At about midday, a letter carrier dropped off a package, which was recorded by a surveillance camera mounted on a family home.

Andrew Bolles mounted the camera and says the package was never found.

"My roommate let me know, he said, 'Hey, I think there was a package delivered but I don't see it.' He kept looking outside. He knew it was delivered about 12:30, so that's when he told me, you know, 'Hey, can we check the camera,'" Bolles said.

They pulled the video and the roommate was right - the package had been delivered.

"It took about half an hour and we finally saw someone walk up the stairs, walk down and we said, 'Gotcha,'" Bolles said.

The video does not show the package being picked up, but it sure appears the person is walking away with more items than they were carrying when they arrived.

The video shows a pair working together, maybe even working the street.

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AVON More than a dozen packages have been stolen from porches recently as Christmas approaches.

Avon Police Cpt. Larry Fischbach said thieves are making off with packages throughout the area, and the thefts are not targeted to specific neighborhoods. Package thefts have occurred everywhere from subdivisions to main streets like Detroit Road, he said.

It is random in nature just like car break-ins, he said. This is a random and opportunistic crime that is unfortunately related to the holiday season and increased package deliveries that come with the season.

Last week two Cleveland men,Hermon Toney, 28, and, Jamir Johnson, 22, both of Cleveland, were arrested by Westlake Police, for stealing packages from porches in Westlake. Several packages that had been stolen from two homes in Westlake were found in a Cadillac that the two men were pulled over in.

Toney and Johnson were charged with two counts of theft, three counts of possessing criminal tools and carrying various weapons for a stun gun.

Fischbach said there have been no arrests for the Avon thefts, and there are no suspects at this time. Hesaid people should keep an eye on their neighborhoods and call police if they see anyone they do not recognize walking or driving around neighborhoods and acting suspicious.

He also said those ordering and expecting delivery of packages should try to have them delivered to a location where they know someone will be able to retrieve them.

Anyone with information regarding the thefts should call the Avon Police Department at934-1234.

Contact Jon Wysochanski at 329-7123 orjwysochanski@chroniclet.com. Follow him on Twitter@JonWysochanski.

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STOCKTON (CBS13) Police are asking for help in identifying a couple of thieves who have been targeting packages left on the front porches of Stockton homes.

Clear footage of one of the thefts was caught by a homes surveillance system. In the video released by the Stockton Police Department, a woman is seen getting out of a pickup truck and walking up to the porch. She then picks up a box and jogs back to the truck.

According to police, a couple of other residents on Winding River Circle have reported package thefts as well.

In one incident, the suspects appear to have seen a US Mail carrier deliver a package to a home, because police say the suspects drove by the carrier then came back six minutes late to grab the box.

The video released by police clearly shows the woman suspected of grabbing the packages. Police describe her as a heavyset white or Hispanic woman who has long red hair and was wearing black high-top boots with white pants, a pink shirt, a black jacket and a red hat or bandana.

Little information on the suspected driver has been given. However, the truck used in the thefts looks to be a 90s-model Nissan with a front license plate slight bent outward at the bottom.

Anyone who recognizes the suspects or the truck is asked to call the Stockton Police Department at (209) 937-8377.

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EUGENE, Ore. Some people in the Santa Clara area ordering gifts online arent receiving them. Someone is driving around neighborhoods taking them off their porches. Police say a person in a light colored pick-up truck is canvassing the neighborhood and stealing multiple packages off of peoples front porches when theyre not home.

One neighbor says he saw the truck driving up and down the street multiple times and then the driver stopped, ran onto his neighbors front steps and took four packages with him.

Neighbors are using facebook pages to spread the word about this theft, so others dont fall victim to the crime.

We in our neighborhood actually use social media as kind of an electronic neighborhood watch. If we see something going on well posts on Irving area, Santa Clara area facebook pages and other people will say oh I saw that too, said Stewart Gilbert.

The Lane County Sheriffs Office is offering some tips to avoid this type of crime. LCSO recommends getting the package delivered to the store youre ordering it from, an office, or friends house where you know someone will be home during the day.

It also recommends tracking your packages, so you can bring them inside as soon as theyre dropped off.

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A man and a woman have been arrested for allegedly stealing packages from the porches of the homes of Ramsey residents, authorities said Saturday.

The man was arrested for the same crime in Paramus earlier this month, police from both communities said.

Alex Beltransarcay, 32, and Glennys Cuevaslorenzo, 27, both of Newark, were arrested Friday after plainclothes Paramus officers Detective Glen Pagano and Officer Paul Siemon saw the couple traveling southbound on Route 17 shortly after hearing a dispatch from Ramsey police at 5:12 p.m. to be on the lookout for a 2004 BMW X5.

The officers stopped the BMW near the Garden State Parkway and noticed numerous packages in the passenger compartment of the car that had been taken from several Ramsey homes, police said.

Both Beltransarcay and Cuevaslorenzo were charged with possession of stolen property and transported to the Bergen County Jail. Beltransarcay was placed on a $25,000 bail; Cuevaslorenzos bail was set at $10,000.

Beltransarcay was arrested by Paramus police on Dec. 1 on similar charges and had been released on a $5,000 bail.

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Missing a Christmas gift delivery on the Near East Side? Someone might have taken the package off your porch.

A Jenifer Street woman called police after a package delivered by the U.S. Postal Service had been stolen from the front porch of her home.

That was one of about a dozen similar thefts that have been reported in Madison, mostly in the isthmus part of the city.

"USPS tracking indicated the package had been delivered shortly after 11 a.m. on Monday, and it had been placed on an unsecured porch," said police spokesman Joel DeSpain. "When the woman got home, it was gone."

A police crime analyst determined there had been similar incidents over the last month involving USPS, FedEx and UPS deliveries.

"Residents expecting deliveries may wish to have packages routed to places of work or other locations where someone is present," DeSpain said.

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