BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.—With just two days ago before Christmas, millions of people are over the country are waiting for those last-minute packages to arrive. For one homeowner in Berkeley County, his almost never made it to him.
According to Berkeley County deputies, they arrested a man for trying to steal a package from a doorstep in the Cane Bay subdivision. The suspect, William Singleton, however, chose the wrong homeowner to mess with.
“He went to his van, he got a white box, he went back to my front door and he picked up my package and put it in his white box and started walking off,” the homeowner told ABC News 4.
That’s when the homeowner got his gun, confronted Singleton and held him at gunpoint before dialing 911.
“I told him to drop the box, and he started making excuses telling me he was holding it for me and that he didn’t want anybody to steal it.”
When deputies arrived on scene, the homeowner told officers that he caught the cable guy, Singleton, stealing a package that was delivered and left on his front door. The victim told authorities it all started when he was waiting for a cable technician to arrive to fix his service.
“In the back of my mind, I was thinking well maybe he was (holding it for me),” the victim told Live 5 News. “Maybe I overreacted. Maybe he was trying to do a good thing. But, once they confirmed that he had additional stolen packages then that whole thought went away.”
The homeowner reportedly had scheduled a cable appointment for December 22, 2015—the same day his Fedex package arrived.
During an investigation, deputies located other stolen packages inside Singleton’s Telstar van.
He was quickly arrested and charged with larceny.
