$50,000. and they said, don t put a gps tracking device in. right. and you did. right. is that standard procedure to sortd of ignore kidnappers when they say that kind of thing? we re in charge of how this goes, not them. the idea was to get the bag to them and find out where they are. but then came something no one expected. quin s mom, gayle sykes. quin called me and said, where s the money? they re going to kill me. where s the money? and you said i dropped it. absolutely. oh, jesus, quin. what kind of people are these? i told you, you go to the crab shack and there s a huge parking lot on your right. listen to me, hello. and for the first time everyone heard the voice of one of the kidnappers. is anybody following me? certainly not. okay. anybody follows you, you know what happens. what i m sorry? hello?
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
plane were following several men in an suv who had just picked up the ransom money from a restaurant parking lot. investigators were hoping the men didn t notice the tracking device in the bag or that the bag only contained $10,000. fbi agent in charge, james casey. the kidnappers asked for $50,000. right. you didn t give them $50,000, you gave them ten. we gave them less than $50,000. and they said don t put a gps tracking device in. right. and you did. right. is that standard procedure to ignore kidnappers? we re in charge of how this goes, not them. the idea was get the bag to them and find out where they are. but then came something no one expected. quinn s mom, gail sikes. quinn called and said where s the money, they re going to kill me. where s the money. and you said? i dropped it, absolutely. jesus, quinn, what kind of
it was the 23rd of march, 2008. ernie scherer iii, a person of interest in the particularly violent murder of his parents, quite suddenly got out of dodge. he was gone. a guilty conscience or an innocent man fed up with negative attention from the cops? but detectives back in alameda county, california did not panic. ernie probably didn t know it but an enterprising officer fitted his car, his deceased father s car, with a gps tracking device. for the majority of the time we knew where he was. and the car plus ernie s regular visits to social media dating sites led the police to a number of young women he, well, met. like the one in new orleans who called the police after a strange night with a man who first told her he was writing a novel about a gambler who is a suspect in his parents murder. and who then told her his own parents had been murdered. and when she went back to his
$50,000. right. you didn t give them $50,000, you gave them ten. we gave them less than $50,000. and they said don t put a gps tracking device in. right. and you did. right. is that standard procedure to ignore kidnappers? we re in charge of how this goes, not them. the idea was get the bag to them and find out where they are. but then came something no one expected. quinn s mom, gail sikes. quinn called and said where s the money, they re going to kill me. where s the money. and you said? i dropped it, absolutely. jesus, quinn, what kind of people are these? i told you, you go to the crab shack and there s a huge parking lot on your right. listen to me, hello. and for the first time, everyone heard the voice of one of the kidnappers. was anybody following you? no, i don t certainly not.