A New Canaan woman reported to police on Monday afternoon, June 16, a strange incident involving an unexpected package.
The woman, 66, who lives on Oekoke Ridge, arrived home on Friday, June 13, and found a UPS package delivery attempt notice on her door, according to police Sgt. Carol Ogrinc. The resident wasn’t expecting any package, Ogrinc said, nor was the woman’s husband — but she completed the back of the notice to request that the package be delivered.
But the next day, it wasn’t. The resident contacted UPS and found that the package had been picked up the evening before at one of the company’s facilities in Norwalk, according to Ogrinc. The person who retrieved the package provided a woman’s name that the resident did not recognize and also left an address.
The resident was able to find out that the package was sent by Wireless Customer Solutions, so its contents may have involved cell phone products, Ogrinc noted.
Police are investigating the matter, including checking security footage taken at the UPS store where the package was picked up. While the woman who made the police report “is really not a victim, her address was used,” Ogrinc said, and there could be identity theft of some kind involved.