Alleged Grinch charged after packages stolen from front step

Calgary police have charged an alleged Grinchafter a number of parcels were stolen from the front step of a home just weeks before Christmas.

David Brunelle, 27, has been charged with one count of theft under $5,000, police said in a release Wednesday.

On Dec. 13, at approximately 10:45 a.m., a security camera recorded a mantaking packages from the front step of a home in the northeast community of Coventry Hills.

The home belonged toDeanna Brousseau, who was inside with hernine-month-old son at the time.

On Tuesday, a woman contacted police after she spotted a man who matched the description of the package thief walking through an alley in the 300 block of Coventry Road.

Police responded to the call and took him into custody.

"I'm quite relieved," Brousseau toldCBCNews.

Brousseausaid one item has already been returned to her, after it was discarded shortly after the theft occurred, but Amazon has offered to ship her new packages free of charge.

Brunelle is scheduled to appear in court on Feb. 6.

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