operation, and what they re now putting in some of those packages. reporter: headaches, viral videos and an estimated 26 million victims in the u.s. as so-called porch pirates swipe those packages from our doorsteps. tampa police say these two women did just that this week. but one major american town is now doing something about it. these are the locations where our gps devices are deployed right now. reporter: we re inside the jersey city police burglary unit. they ve teamed up with amazon, planting a gps tracking device inside fake packages, and dropping them off on a porch, waiting for a porch pirate to come steal it. this morning, the detectives deployed this, and within eight minutes, we had movement on one of the devices. we swooped in and made the arrest, with big smiles on our face. reporter: within the first four hours of their undercover sting, police made three arrests. the message to the bad guys are, we re going to catch you. reporter: and david, the goal he
cohen once said he would take a bullet for his boss. i m obviously very loyal and very dedicated to mr. trump. reporter: but today, cohen told the judge he has been living in a personal and mental incarceration, ever since he went to work for trump more than a decade ago. it was my own weakness, and a blind loyalty to this man that led me to choose a path of darkness over light, he said. i felt it was my duty to cover up his dirty deeds. mr. president, did michael cohen cover up your dirty deeds? reporter: president trump s story about the hush payments has changed over time. first, he told the american people he knew nothing. did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? no, no. reporter: then he said he only knew after the fact. did you know about the payments? later on i knew. later on. reporter: now he calls the stormy daniels deal a simple private transaction, pointing the finger back at michael cohen. but today in court, cohen emotionally
seen in this surveillance video. i don t know what happened, if it got lost at the sheriff s department, if it got buried on somebody s desk. this hurts. this hurts. this is like taking a punch to the gut and not being prepared to get it. reporter: mclellan is now charged in both cases. in this one, police say it was dna evidence removed from the abandoned suv that led them to him. mclellan is being held tonight without bond. and before making this public, authorities had to break this to this girl s family, and that was a tough conversation. david? steve, thank you. next tonight, to the race against time in west virginia. several rescue teams deep inside an abandoned coal mine. tonight, where three people were lost. but there is breaking news as we re on the air tonight. their family believes they might have just been found. abc s david kerley on the scene for us. oh, my god. reporter: jubilation in this small west virginia mining town, as loved ones told that all three mi
but telling the driver he d just shot people. there were really a lot of gunshots. like, it was so loud. reporter: the screams of witnesses harrowing to hear. one victim on the ground as passers-by try to help. two people were killed. a third is brain dead. another dozen wounded. chekatt wasn t just known to the police. he was on a terror watch list. they searched his home earlier that day in an unrelated case, but they found a rifle, grenade and knives. french officials admitting this could ve triggered the attack. so, let s get to ian pannell live with us again tonight at the scene of that shooting. and ian, i know we re learning much more about the suspect at this hour? reporter: yeah, that s right, david. we know that chekatt was born and raised here in strasbourg, france, the same city where he launched that attack just behind me yesterday. here is the problem, that the attacks have taken place in europe aren t carried out by outsiders, they are carried out by people from
next, to the nationwide search for that missing mother from colorado. tonight, the surveillance of her in that grocery store, last seen with her 1-year-old daughter. that was thanksgiving day. tonight, amid questions about why her fiance was not at that news conference, tonight, what his attorney is now saying. here s abc s clayton sandell. reporter: this is the last confirmed sighting of kelsey berreth, thanksgiving day, shopping at a supermarket with her daughter. tonight, her fiance s lawyer says his client is cooperating with the search to find her. patrick, why don t you talk to us? patrick frazee refused to talk yesterday, leaving his lawyer s office with the couple s daughter. you want to say something about kelsey? frazee says he let police search his phone and take dna samples and photographs. police say frazee told them he got a text message from berreth november 25th. that same day, a second text message from her phone to her job, saying she was taking time off work. as fo