Man Gets TV Delivered to Him By Mistake, Then Gets Arrested Because He Kept It

WATCH OUT!!! If you plan on keeping something that was delievered to your house that you never ordered read this! A man was arrested after a delivery guy delivered a…

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Published Apr 18, 2019 7:23 AM EDT

DORAL, FL – DECEMBER 10: FedEx employee, Victor Alvarez, loads a truck with items for delivery at the Fedex World Service Center on December 10, 2012 in Doral, Florida. FedEx Corp. expects today to be the busiest shippping day of the year when 19 million packages are expected to move through their system.

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WATCH OUT!!! If you plan on keeping something that was delievered to your house that you never ordered read this!

A man was arrested after a delivery guy delivered a $2,700 flat screen TV to the wrong house! The problem is that he never ordered the TV to begin with and accepting the delivery was essentially theft. Aka felony larceny.

He thought it was just plain good luck but soon after that police surrounded his house and arrested him.

"According to him, the Federal Trade Commission’s website says, “If you receive merchandise that you didn’t order, you have a legal right to keep it as a free gift” however it also says that you should try to resolve your problem first before keeping an item."

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