Category: UPS News

KPRC 2 News viewers have called the station to report dozens of UPS packages and boxes littering parking lots. It almost looks like they were dumped there. You asked us what is going on and we are getting answers for you!

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Have you seen this happening in your area of town? We found UPS packages set in piles around a parking lot in Rosenberg. There were UPS employees picking through the boxes at the strip center on Avenue H.

We’ve also had reports from viewers about the same scene at a parking lot in The Woodlands area

Harrison Bean, 5, is happy the Grinch delivers packages on his street.

The Grinch — or, rather, UPS driver Jermaine Marks — delighted neighbors last week when he showed up to deliver packages to homes in Chicago, green fur, pug-like nose and all. He decorated his delivery truck like a reindeer, with a big, red nose on the front.

On Thursday, after delivering a box to Harrison’s home, Marks paused and saw the 5-year-old in the window. He gestured to the child with his fluffy fingers, in character.

“That was so nice,” Harrison told his dad, Alex Bean. The child’s watched “How The Grinch Stole Christmas” a dozen times this year. “I think his heart must have grown three sizes.”

A gunman who stole several packages from a UPS truck in northwest Atlanta this week had help from at least two other robbers, according to a police incident report.

The alleged carjacker climbed aboard the 18-wheeler and kidnapped the driver at gunpoint moments after the tractor-trailer pulled out of a UPS hub along Fulton Industrial Boulevard early Tuesday morning.

The driver was bound for Macon and had a full load of packages that he was scheduled to deliver to a UPS facility there. But he got intercepted less than a mile into his long haul around 3 a.m.

One of the gunman’s accomplices was a man who crossed the street and stopped in front of the big rig as it approached the intersection of Fulton Industrial Boulevard and Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway, according to the report. The 56-year-old driver told officers that suspect, who later helped unload the stolen cargo from the UPS truck, distracted him while the armed suspect opened his door and quickly jumped into the passenger’s seat.

A suspect has been arrested in a series of armed robberies of UPS drivers in Oakland earlier this month, according to the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office.

Gregory Taylor-Bowie was arrested Dec. 14 on suspicion of carjacking the vehicle used in robberies of four UPS employees over three days, police said in a probable cause statement.

Taylor-Bowie allegedly carjacked a black Acura RDX on Nov. 11, using a handgun. Then at 3:40 p.m. on Dec. 9, Taylor-Bowie allegedly pointed a handgun at two UPS employees delivering packages, Oakland police Officer Perla Ortiz-Salas said in the probable cause statement.

Taylor-Bowie had one of the employees put some packages inside trash bags and Taylor-Bowie fled, police allege.

Atlanta police are investigating a reported kidnapping and carjacking involving a UPS truck.

Investigators say that a suspect approached a UPS truck in the area of Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway around 3:30 a.m. Tuesday.

The suspect was able to get into the truck and forced the UPS driver to drive to Bankhead Court. Once they arrived, the suspect and other people tied up the driver and stole packages from the truck before they left the scene.