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California police use GPS to track down accused porch pirate in Anaheim

By Bob D'Angelo, Cox Media Group National Content Desk

California police use GPS to track down accused porch pirate in Anaheim Leonard Ramos is accused of stealing a package that contained a GPS tracker. (Anaheim Police Department/Anaheim Police Department)

By Bob D'Angelo, Cox Media Group National Content Desk

ANAHEIM, Calif. — A California man is accused of stealing a bait package with a GPS locator planted by authorities.

Leonard Ramos, 34, was arrested at 5 a.m. Saturday by Anaheim police after he allegedly moved a package and activated the tracking device, The Orange County Register reported.

The package had been planted at the doorstep of a home, Anaheim police spokesman Sgt. Shane Carringer told the newspaper.

“Officers contacted him on foot and recovered the package,” Carringer told the Register.

Ramos was booked into the Orange County Sheriff’s Intake Release Center and held in lieu of $20,000 bail, according to jail records.

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