LAKEVILLE, MASS. (WHDH) - Police officers are being hailed for turning in dozens of Amazon packages that were found on the side of the road in Lakeville early Sunday morning.
The officers were on routine patrol around 2 a.m. when they found three large totes each containing about 40 Amazon packages in a wooded area off of Bedford Street, according to police.
After learning that no packages had been reported stolen or misplaced, they contacted a local Amazon distribution center in Middleboro and returned them.
Sgt. Shawn Robert said he saw the packages about six feet out into the woods and noticed they didn’t have any snow on them, which meant they hadn’t been there very long.
“We loaded up the packages, thinking, hey, maybe we’ll save someone’s Christmas,” Robert said, adding that he and the other officer counted some 140 packages before bringing them back to Amazon.
It’s unclear why they were left on the side of the road. An investigation is underway.
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