Porch pirate steals child’s heart monitor

A Guelph man is facing charges after he was seen carrying a package, containing a pediatric heart monitor, stolen from the front porch of a nearby home.

A resident reported the theft to Guelph Police at 4:15 a.m. Wednesday.

They said the parcel had just been taken from the porch of their home near Willow Road and Applewood Crescent.

“The package contained a heart monitor their child desperately needed,” police said in a media release.

Officers responding to the call spotted a man carrying the box.

Police arrested him and, during the subsequent search, also recovered a pair of prescription glasses which had been stolen from a vehicle in the same neighbourhood.

The 43-year-old Guelph man was charged with theft under $5,000, two counts of possessing stolen property under $5,000, and two counts of breaching a probation order.