Southern California Woman Sends AirTag in Package to Herself to Catch Mail Thieves

Frustrated by repeated thefts from her mailbox, a fed-up California woman placed an AirTag in a package she sent to herself, leading to the arrest of two suspects in a mail theft case. The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office reported on Aug. 20 that an anonymous woman, after repeatedly having her mail stolen from a mailbox at the Los Alamos Post Office, mailed herself a package with an AirTag locator in hopes of catching the thieves. Her plan worked. Deputies responded to a mail theft report at the post office on Aug. 19 around 7:17 a.m. Upon arrival, they learned that the victim’s mail, including the package with the AirTag, had been stolen again that morning and was being tracked....