Videos show porch pirates in Miami Lakes, Miami Gardens

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla – Porch pirates recently targeted homes in Miami-Dade County and the victims want them caught.

Surveillance video from a Marbella Park community home in Miami Lakes shows a thief who is wearing a red vest when he took a box that didn’t belong to him.

Inside the box, there was a BBQ grill that was meant to be used with a family on the beach this weekend.

In Miami Gardens, video shows a thief who was also wearing red. He jumped a fence, stole a package and drove away in an SUV.

The victims are asking anyone with information about the thefts to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.


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Janine Stanwood joined Local 10 News in February 2004 as an assignment editor. She is now a general assignment reporter. Before moving to South Florida from her Washington home, Janine was the senior legislative correspondent for a United States senator on Capitol Hill.