Porch pirate skips to steal box with toddler's life-saving equipment

2022-08-30

Shocking moment female porch pirate SKIPS up to family’s fence to steal package containing disabled toddler’s life-saving equipment

Home surveillance footage showed the shocking moment a brazen porch thief in Kansas City, Missouri stole a toddler’s life-saving medical equipment
Susanna Elizarraraz, the mother of the one-year-old, said the package contained a canister to help him breathe since he was born with a medical condition
Footage showed the thief hop out of the passenger seat of a white SUV and skip toward two packages outside of a Kansas City home

A female porch pirate shamelessly skipped to the fence of a Missouri home to steal a package containing a toddler’s life-saving equipment.

The package stolen on August 26 contained a canister that allows a one-year-old toddler born with a medical condition to breathe.

Shockingly, the brazen blonde thief who pilfered it skipped up to the box to snatch it, and clearly took delight in her criminal endeavors.

Susanna Elizarraraz, the mother of Carlos, said her son relied on the equipment after he had a tracheotomy at two weeks old. Elizarraraz had ordered a new canister for the suction device after the previous one became cracked.

‘This is a very important piece to his day-to-day life,’ Elizarraraz told Fox4.

‘When they’re stealing boxes off of people’s porches, it may not be a Gucci purse or Jordan’s, it very well could be people’s lifesaving prescriptions, medical equipment they need to be able to sustain life on a day-to-day basis, which is the case for our son.’

Home surveillance footage showed the brazen thief hopping out of the passenger seat of a white SUV and skipping toward two packages outside of a Kansas City home.

The female with tied-up blonde and pink hair took one of the packages before whisking away with an unidentified driver.

A female porch pirate in Kansas City with blonde and pink hair stole necessary medical equipment that helps a one-year-old breathe on August 26

Home cameras caught the moment the woman skipped out of a white SUV without license plates

Two packages were sat at the front of the family’s gate, but only one was stolen

PICTURED: Juan Carlos and Susanna Elizarraraz with one-year-old Carlos. The toddler was born with a medical condition and spent the first three months of his life in a hospital

The family was not home on Saturday evening when the thief took off with the package, and the SUV didn’t have license plates.

‘That’s not fair to my son,’ Juan Carlos Elizarraraz told Fox4. ‘We have to worry about whether or not his equipment is going to be there next time we order it.’

Lala Ozaeta, the one-year-old’s aunt, posted a warning in the Stolen KC Facebook group describing the woman as having tattoos.

‘This woman took a box thinking she was going to open it to find maybe something valuable to her,’ Ozaeta wrote.

The Elizarraraz family haven’t reported the incident to police.

Susanna said her son relied on the equipment after he had a tracheotomy at two weeks old. She had ordered a new suction device for her son’s trach after the previous one became cracked

The family was not home on Saturday when the thief stole the one-year-old’s medical equipment

Porch pirates have been on the hunt since the COVID-19 pandemic as most Americans were confined to their homes with home deliveries becoming a necessity.

Andrew Hurst, research analyst at ValuePenguin.com said the pandemic was a perfect storm for thieves.

‘The quarantine has become the perfect opportunity for porch pirates, with home delivery orders increasing by nearly 40% since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic,’ Hurst said at the height of the pandemic in 2020.

‘It’s worrying that a significant number of Americans are not taking the appropriate measures to protect themselves against future thefts.’

A survey conducted in July 2020 within the first few months of the stay-at-home orders found that 18 percent of Americans experienced package theft within the past four months.

At the time, multiple consumers reported various missing passages with 40 percent of stolen packages reported from apartment complex’s, according to ValuePenguin.com.

About 57 percent of those stolen packages were delivered from Amazon.

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