Grinch grabs gifts delivered to front porches during holdays, North Ridgeville, Cuyahoga Falls hit
Santa #39;s elves aren #39;t the only ones keeping watch this holiday season. Thieves are a swiping packages containing gifts off of front porches from Cuyahoga Falls to North Ridgeville.
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MACOMB TOWNSHIP(WWJ) An alert neighbor is credited for stopping two young thieves who were stealing packages dropped off by UPS drivers at homes in Macomb County on Thursday.
Macomb County Sheriff deputies arrested the 18 and 19-year-old suspects after a homeowner in Macomb Township spotted one suspect as he ranup to a porch and take a package in a neighborhood near 21 Mile and Hayes.
As the thief was retreating to the passenger seat of the Nissan, the homeowner used his cell phone to take photographs of the manandthen called police.
As police were responding to thecall, a second incident was reported. The suspects were stopped a short time later and 26 packages were found in their car.
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Other deputies found packaging and shipping labels nearby. The suspects are facing larceny charges.
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Police say the arrests of two men suspected of stealing packages off front porches is a good reminder for residents not to let burglars ruin their holiday season.
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COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS Police say the arrests of two men suspected of stealing packages off front porches is a good reminder for residents not to let burglars ruin their holiday season.
On Thursday, Cottonwood Heights police arrested two men believed to have taken packages from homes in their city and West Jordan over the past two weeks.
"The suspects were following UPS delivery vans and were walking up to residences taking packages after they were dropped off," said Cottonwood Heights Police Sgt. Corbett Ford.
Sometime between Nov. 27 and Nov. 30, Ford says packages left on a porch in Cottonwood Heights were taken. But surveillance video recorded by the victims proved to be "extremely beneficial," he said.
Investigators got a general description of the men and their vehicle. About 3 p.m. Thursday, an officer spotted a vehicle that matched the description near Ft. Union Boulevard and 1300 East and pulled it over.
The driver, Douglas Dru Kemp, 37, of West Jordan, was ultimately arrested for investigation of drug possession. Police also found a package in the vehicle that had recently been taken off a porch in West Jordan, Ford said.
"The driver also had a knife. And he also had a black airsoft handgun in the storage compartment that had the orange tip either removed or painted over. They were taking steps to make sure you didn't know if it's a real gun or a fake gun," he said.
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Arrests remind residents not to let grinches steal Christmas
COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS, Utah The holiday season brings packages aplenty to porches, and police said they recently nabbed a couple of Grinches accused of stealing Christmas deliveries from residents.
Police initially received surveillance images from a resident who had a package delivered by UPS stolen from their property, and the footage depicted a man and a dark-colored Toyota Scion.
Sgt. Corbett Ford, a public information officer for Cottonwood Heights Police Department, said they put out an internal bulletin, and Thursday a detective spotted a vehicle matching that description. After following the vehicle, the detective made a traffic stop on the Scion.
He subsequently arrested the driver for possession of methamphetamine, possession of stolen property, Ford said. This guy actually had a package that had just been stolen from a delivery in the West Jordan area, so he actually was still out capering and up to nefarious activities.
The man, identified by police as 37-year-old Douglas Drew Kemp, also had a knife and an Airsoft BB gun. The guns fire plastic BBs and are designed to appear like real firearms, and Corbett said the bright orange tip required on such BB guns to mark them as toys had either been removed or painted over on the gun in the mans possession.
They are roaming around in the valley, they are stealing items from people, and then, to top that off, they have items made to look like weapons in the event that somebody tries to confront them, Ford said.
A second man, 34-year-old Adam Pat Anderson, was arrested at a residence in Murray, and Ford said that man was an accomplice in the thefts.
Well, I think you could probably definitely say that this is kind of one of those Grinches that stole Christmas, but unfortunately you have people that are up to no good, Ford said. They are doing nefarious acts. They are stealing things from people, so in that sense, yes, they are [Grinches]. Absolutely.
This time of the year is often the busiest for delivery services, and Ford said with more and more people shopping online and opting for delivery, package thefts are not uncommon around the holidays. He said there are several things people can do to protect their packages.
Kemp was arrested for possession of methamphetamine, possession of stolen property and possession of a dangerous weapon (knife.) Anderson was arrested on a felony theft charge.
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Children's minister Justin Craig shows what will become the fellowship area during a tour of the expanding Windsor Road Christian Church in Champaign on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014.
CHAMPAIGN Senior Minister Randy Boltinghouse walks through a construction zone at Windsor Road Christian Church, where crews are busy adding more space for a growing congregation.
A dozen years ago, the Champaign church at 2501 Windsor Road served about 500 people on a weekly basis. These days, it's about 900.
Boltinghouse, the senior minister since 1989, doesn't claim any credit for that.
"The Lord has been behind whatever growth we've had, and we are just trying to get out of the way," he said.
The $3.8 million project, which includes an expansion and some remodeling of existing spaces, should be finished next spring, Boltinghouse said, and "God-willing" some children's spaces could be done by this Christmas.
Overall, the church is expanding from 36,000 square feet to 48,000 square feet, with the addition creating badly needed larger spaces for children and teens making up one-third of the congregation, he said.
Some of what is under construction: Larger worship areas for kids and teens, breakout rooms for more focused study, an indoor playground for kids, a larger nursery (with separate spaces for crawlers and walkers), and a new family entrance with more check-in kiosks for parents dropping off their kids.
More fellowship space is also being built for different age groups, church leaders say. That includes a cafe area for adults, an outdoor patio and a gathering space for middle school and high school students with a TV, snacks and games.
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BY TK BARGER BLADE RELIGION EDITOR
The Reformed Catholic Churchs (RCC) global headquarters in North Toledo is far removed from the Vatican in many ways.
A building that once was the home of Community Church of God, at the corner of Doyle Street and Ketcham Avenue, is now the Holy Cross Reformed Catholic Church, where the RCC is centered. That is also where Metropolitan Archbishop Marc Ignatius Stephen Heckman, who uses the first name Marcis, lives.
The RCC, incorporated in 2000, is a fifth pillar of Catholicism, Archbishop Heckman said. We consider ourselves different because were made up of the Old Catholic movement [centered in Utrecht, Netherlands], the independent Catholic movement, the Orthodox movement, even the Roman movement, so were separate in that aspect.
For the past eight months, Archbishop Jose Israel de la Trinidad also was there after he moved from Puerto Rico, but he recently established a new Toledo residence for his religious order, the Reformed Carmelites. Archbishop Heckman is a Reformed Jesuit; there are RCC versions of several religious orders with Roman Catholic traditions.
Archbishop Trinidad is also principal of the Academy for Educational Excellence, a public charter school on Heatherdowns Boulevard that is Christian oriented, although its not a Christian school, he said. The academy currently has students in kindergarten through grade 5. There, the principal is known as Israel Irizarry-Koppisch, or Mr. Koppisch. He took Trinidad as his religious name. Irizarry-Koppisch is his last name in Hispanic construction, with his fathers last name followed by a hyphen and his mothers last name.
Archbishop Trinidad, 61, moved to Toledo as part of the RCCs own reform. The Church recently consolidated its North American dioceses into one archdiocese, and Archbishop Heckman, 56, who had held the offices of both metropolitan (head of the Church) and U.S. presiding bishop since 2012, made Archbishop Trinidad the presiding bishop of the U.S. Archbishop Heckmans Church work is done as a volunteer, he said; I am disabled, so I dont get to do a whole lot of work, and as he considers himself semi-retired, he appointed Archbishop Trinidad to lead the U.S. Church while he focuses on the RCC around the world.
There are RCC congregations on the African continent, in the Philippines, in Europe, and in Central and South America. In the U.S., congregations are in about eight states and Puerto Rico, with parishes forming in other states.
Holy Cross, in Toledo, has 20 to 30 members, Archbishop Heckman said, but you dont get that many here. Were lucky to get 12 in the pews most of the time; I admit that. But the church is full on Christmas Eve, he said Holy Cross will have a lessons and carols service at 8 p.m. and a midnight Mass.
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