Police arrested a delivery truck driver Wednesday after they said rummaged through two dozen Amazon packages, stole over $1,000 worth of goods and then unceremoniously dumped the boxes on the side of the road in Morris County.

Trey L. Johnson, 31, of Woodbridge, a driver for a third party Amazon-contracted delivery company called Prime EFS, was charged with theft of movable property, according to a release from the Harding Township Police.

The dumped packages were discovered by a resident on the side of Fawn Hill Drive on Nov. 28 and half of them “were rummaged through" and $1,974 in contents were stolen, police said.

Officers worked with the Amazon Regional Loss Prevention and Chatham Township Police and were able to identify Johnson as the culprit, the release stated.

Ernesto Apreza, a spokesman for Amazon, previously said, “We are working with law enforcement as they investigate and will work with customers directly to make things right.”

This was the second theft-related arrest of a delivery driver who subcontracted for Amazon announced by police this week.

William Tindall III, of Jersey City, was arrested Saturday by the Metuchen Police and charged with two counts of theft after they said he was caught on camera dropping a package on a porch, returning to his car and then returning to the house to take different packages delivered by UPS and the U.S. Postal Service.

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