The man arrested after taking an Amazon.com package from outside a Story Hill home was released from custody quicker than Santa can slide down a chimney.

The eagle-eyed neighbor who spotted the miscreant miscreating in the first place sends along this description in case he should re-prowl for pinchable packages.

He was tall (around 6 ft.), thin, African-American, 50 years old. He was wearing jeans, and a dark jacket, with a lighter blue back pack worn on his back with both straps. He was not disheveled or anything like that. He was carrying a cup of coffee when I first spotted him and he was not looking into peoples’ yards or drawing attention to himself. While it is now clear he was looking for packages, he was not obvious about it.

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It’s that time of year — package-swiping season.

A man who looked suspicious to an eagle-eyed neighbor was arrested Tuesday mornig after said eagle-eyed neighbor saw the man walk away from a house on Bluemound Rd. with a package in his hands that he was not carrying moments before. The eagle-eyed neighbor alerted police. The police responded in a timely fashion — yay!!

Thank you, eagle-eyed neighbor! Good going, Milwaukee Police Department!

The Miller Park ring road is open, just in time for that last-second shopping.

A previous post is here.