Billerica police hand-deliver abandoned Amazon packages to residents

After piles of Amazon packages were twice determined abandoned around Billerica police noted they decided to take matters into their own hands and deliver them to their rightful owners Officer Sam Hawkes mentioned he was patrolling the area of Towne Plaza last week when he spotted what looked like trash near the loading docks After a closer look he discovered it was a pile of eight unopened packages I got out of the cruiser to move it closer to the dumpster and it happened to be full packages mentioned Hawkes Each package was addressed to a Billerica home so Hawkes and another officer loaded them up and drove them out themselves It was a busy day that day we had those so we had two full cruisers of gifts while calls were also going on announced Hawkes And then when clear and had a little bit of free time we were delivering those packages making sure that happened that night According to the Billerica police department the same situation arose a week later Another officer explained he detected eight more packages scattered on the ground in the area of Salem Road so he decided to deliver those boxes as well Hawkes noted residents were surprised when officers revealed up at their doors People were happy to see their presents gifts packages whatever they were he explained Police commented they have notified Amazon and are trying to figure out why these packages keep getting lost We re in contact with Amazon at this moment We re working with their prevention crew and whoever s on that side we re working with them to see what s going on here commented Hawkes NEWS has reached out to Amazon for comment but has not yet heard back