{"id":406065,"date":"2022-12-03T11:02:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T11:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=406065"},"modified":"2022-12-03T11:22:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T11:22:25","slug":"porch-pirates-plague-consumers-trying-to-finish-their-holiday-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/porch-pirates-plague-consumers-trying-to-finish-their-holiday-shopping","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Porch pirates&#8217; plague consumers trying to finish their holiday shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Packages stolen from porches, stoops and stairways spike around the holiday season, as thieves take advantage of increased e-commerce spending. Americans spent a record $9.12 billion shopping online this Black Friday, according to USA Today, many ordering gifts for their children, family and friends. While most packages will arrive unscathed, millions across the United States will be stolen in what security officials call a &#8220;crime of opportunity.&#8221; Over the past year, 260 million packages worth $19.5 billion were stolen by &#8220;porch pirates&#8221; according to SafeWise, a home safety research company. Although porch piracy is nothing new, Michigan has taken steps to stiffen penalties for those caught in the act. Public Act 48, established in December 2019, set penalties for first-time offenders to one year in jail and\/or a $500 fine. Subsequent offenses were made punishable by up to five years in prison. And yet, thefts continue throughout much of the state. According to ADT Security Services, roughly 36 percent of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Packages stolen from porches, stoops and stairways spike around the holiday season, as thieves take advantage of increased e-commerce spending. Americans spent a record $9.12 billion shopping online this Black<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}