HOLLYWOOD, FLA. (WSVN) - Police arrested a man accused of stealing packages from homes in Hollywood.
According to Hollywood Police, on Dec. 5, they received reports about a man taking packages, ripping them open and putting them into a bag he was carrying in the area of North Surf Road and Oak Street.
Detectives identified the man as 34-year-old Felix Curry Payne.
Home surveillance video captured Payne walking up to a home’s front porch with a bag and putting several packages that did not belong to him inside the bag.
“He would go, he would get the packages, pull the items out of the packages and put them inside another bag,” said Hollywood Police Officer Christian Lata. “Not only did he have one package, he had packages of five different homes, five different victims.”
Once officers arrived at the scene, they found Payne, who matched the description.
“It was an alert resident who saw the guy and assumed, ‘Hey, this isn’t right. He’s going to different houses, getting different packages, I don’t think those are his,'” said Lata.
Officer-worn body camera footage captured officers speaking to Payne.
“No ID,” Payne tells officers.
“No ID? All right, cool,” said an officer.
Footage shows Payne was stunned to be encountered by officers.
“What happened like that?” said Payne.
“What happened like what?” said an officer.
“I don’t know. You stopped me,” said Payne.
After officers explained to him why they had stopped him, Payne responded, “An Amazon package?”
Officers put handcuffs on Payne and took him into custody.
Packages that Payne allegedly stole were returned to the owners, detectives said.
“Luckily, officers were able to trace his steps back through surveillance, and also through old-fashioned police work, and return every single package back to the rightful owners,” said Lata.
Payne faces five charges of felony burglary of an unoccupied dwelling while being unarmed.
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