BY ROSE ADAMS
An infamous Dyker Heights
package thief has plagued
her neighbors for nearly 20
years, according to victims,
who claim that no matter how
many times police cuff the serial
larcenist, packages continue
to vanish.
“I am trying to be extra
careful now with my deliveries
and my neighbors are as
well, but it’s so sad that we
have to live like this,” said Alyse
Taddeo DeAngelis, whose
package was stolen from her
stoop by 78th Street and 11th
Avenue on July 27. “She seems
to always come back.”
The courier crook, who
served two brief prison stints
in 2016 and 2017 for stealing
packages, was arrested fi ve
times for petty larceny and
trespassing charges in Dyker
Heights and Bensonhurst in
2019 alone, and her only penalty
this year was fi ve days of
community service, according
to a spokesman for District Attorney
COURIER L 6 IFE, AUG. 16-22, 2019
Eric Gonzalez.
Her other 2019 arrests
ended in either a conditional
discharge, or adjournment in
contemplation of dismissal,
although a judge has issued a
bench warrant for her arrest
after she failed to show at a
court hearing last month following
an alleged parcel heist
on July 16.
And this year was no fl uke
— the package thief’s rapsheet
extends back to the turn of the
century — and locals doubt
that the serial package pilferer
will ever face any serious punishment.
“She was arrested, and they
issued a restraining order. But
she still does it,” said Daniela
DiLeo Romano, whose surveillance
cameras caught the thief
taking packages off her porch
two years ago. “She stole from
all of my neighbors, too.”
PACKAGE PILFERER: Security footage shows a serial package thief taking
an item from inside Alyssa Bello’s house in Bensonhurst on December
10, 2018. Alyssa Bello
‘We shouldn’t have
to live in fear’
DA powerless to stop notorious Dyker
Heights package thief, residents claim
And many residents recognize
the packet purloiner
as longtime local, who once
worked at an Italian restaurant
on 72nd Street and 18th
Avenue. DeAngelis says she
used to be friendly with the
neighborhood thief, and would
often greet her in passing.
“It’s like she lives this secret
life of stealing packages on
people’s doorsteps,” DeAngelis
speculated. “It’s so sad what’s
become of her.”
Romano says her family
is on friendly terms with the
crook’s clan, who are embarrassed
to be associated with
the serial parcel perp.
“My husband knew her sister,
who is mortifi ed that her
sister does this,” Romano said.
Many locals want the looter
to face a harsher punishment
than a few months in prison,
and blame Gonzalez for not
pressing charges sooner. One
resident, Alyssa Bello, who saw
the box bandit steal her package
in December 2018, says she
tried to pressure the District
Attorney’s offi ce to act, but
claims prosecutors dropped
the ball.
“I did the paperwork for
the DA so she could be sent to
court and I got an order of protection,
but apparently it didn’t
do much. She was arrested and
released even after repeatedly
stealing,” Bello said. “She’s
out and about doing it all over
again, thanks to the DA.”
But prosecutors say their
hands are tied. Petty theft
is a Class A misdemeanor,
meaning that if convicted,
the thief could face a maximum
sentence of one year
in prison, and the law forbids
judges from considering
multiple petty theft charges
when sentencing.
One peeved resident
claimed the thief steals packages
to fuel her drug addiction,
and advocated counseling over
jail time.
“She’s doing it for money
for drugs,” Romano said.
”They should mandate her to
go to a drug rehab.”
Meanwhile, Bensonhurst
and Dyker Heights residents
have banded together out of a
shared interest of actually getting
their mail, and lookout
for their neighbor’s packages
— lest the package thief get
them fi rst.
“My neighbors and I try to
take in packages for each other
so as to not have her come stealing,
but it’s hard sometimes,”
DeAngelo said. “We shouldn’t
have to live in fear.”
Messages left for the Dyker
Heights package thief and
with her attorney were not returned.
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