{"id":157165,"date":"2022-05-01T11:58:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T11:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=157165"},"modified":"2022-05-01T11:58:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T11:58:18","slug":"cctv-captures-moment-thieves-make-off-with-an-amazon-van","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/cctv-captures-moment-thieves-make-off-with-an-amazon-van\/","title":{"rendered":"CCTV captures moment thieves make off with an Amazon van"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>CCTV captures moment thieves make off with an Amazon van full of parcels as driver makes a delivery and claims he was &#8216;mugged for his keys&#8217;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The footage was captured in Great Preston village, Leeds on Saturday afternoon\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Two men on a motorbike approached the van while the driver made a delivery<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><b>The driver\u00a0chased after the van before\u00a0West Yorkshire Police arrived at the scene<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the shocking moment brazen thieves stole an Amazon van full of parcels in a village near Leeds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The CCTV footage was captured in\u00a0Great Preston,\u00a0located between Kippax, Swillington and\u00a0Garforth, on Saturday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The video shows the thieves pounce when the driver leaves his van at a junction to make a delivery to a property opposite.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/05\/01\/10\/57263715-10772313-image-a-117_1651399015371.jpg\" height=\"363\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>This is the shocking moment brazen thieves were caught on CCTV stealing an Amazon Prime van full of parcels in Great Preston village near Leeds\u00a0on Saturday afternoon<\/p>\n<p>In the footage, two men on a motorbike can be seen waiting for their opportunity to strike.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They approach the parked van and the motorbike driver jumps off, before entering the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The Amazon driver, realising what has happened, runs across the road screaming and chases after the van as it speeds away.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/05\/01\/11\/57263721-10772313-image-a-118_1651399535489.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The video shows the thieves pounce when the driver leaves his van at a junction to make a delivery to a property opposite<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/05\/01\/11\/57263725-10772313-image-a-119_1651399543540.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>In the footage, two men on a motorbike can be seen waiting for their opportunity to strike before approaching the parked van<\/p>\n<p>He then hails a passing BMW for help and a few moments later a\u00a0West Yorkshire Police van arrives at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>According to neighbours, the driver claimed he was mugged for his keys when he left the van unattended.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2018,\u00a0Amazon started putting fake packages in their delivery trucks to test the integrity of their drivers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/05\/01\/11\/57264419-10772313-image-a-122_1651399623402.jpg\" height=\"348\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Amazon driver, realising what has happened, runs across the road screaming and chases after the van as it speeds away<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/05\/01\/11\/57263719-10772313-image-a-120_1651399582541.jpg\" height=\"360\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>He then hails a passing BMW for help and a few moments later a West Yorkshire Police van arrives on the scene<\/p>\n<p>The online store planted the dummy parcels at random in a ploy to catch delivery drivers that steal customer packages.<\/p>\n<p>The thief-detecting strategy was ordered from Amazon&#8217;s headquarters in Seattle as a response to overwhelming reports of package thefts.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers are supposed to scan every package in their truck. The labels on the fake packages were intentionally rigged to bring up an error message when scanned.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10772313\/CCTV-captures-moment-thieves-make-Amazon-van-parcels-driver-makes-delivery.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CCTV captures moment thieves make off with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":157164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CCTV captures moment thieves make off with an Amazon van - Pre Coin News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/cctv-captures-moment-thieves-make-off-with-an-amazon-van\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CCTV captures moment thieves make off with an Amazon van - 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