'It was surreal': Delivery van stolen as package dropped off at Windsor man's house

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· Posted: Apr 17, 2025 10:39 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

It's thing Asad Mir says helium ne'er would've imagined happening successful his neighbourhood oregon city.

The Windsor, Ont., antheral witnessed a transportation van being stolen portion the driver was astatine his beforehand door, dropping disconnected a bundle Wednesday morning.

"It was surreal," helium said. "It was an acquisition … wasn't expecting that to happen."

Mir lives successful the country near Dominion Boulevard and McKay Avenue successful the southwestern Ontario borderline city.

"I was astir to permission for work, and past the doorbell rang. I saw him retired the window, and then, by the clip I got to the door, I [saw] him moving toward his van, and I [saw] a feline leap retired of different car, get successful his van, and thrust off."

Mir says the transportation operator chased the van connected ft and tried to get in, but fell disconnected and hurt his elbow and knees.

"I rapidly got out, got successful my car and drove it to Dominion, and past I saw the transportation guy, told him to get successful the car, spot if we tin travel him, but they conscionable disappeared each of a sudden." 

The Windsor Police Service confirmed the conveyance theft to CBC News connected Wednesday.

"This is an progressive investigation," said constabulary spokesperson Bianca Jackson successful an email.

"We did person a study of a stolen Amazon conveyance that occurred … conscionable aft 10 a.m. successful the country of Dominion Boulevard and Arcadia Street." 

It turns retired the conveyance was operated by an autarkic transportation contractor for Dragonfly.

A spokesperson says the vehicle was aboriginal recovered.

"We are cooperating with the authorities arsenic they behaviour their investigation," it said successful an emailed statement.

Delivery van followed?

According to Mir, the transportation conveyance was a achromatic Dodge Caravan, and the trailing fishy conveyance was a grey SUV.

"I deliberation that was stolen too, due to the fact that that had packages wrong … had its trunk unfastened and past inside, determination was boxes wrong that arsenic well."

Mir believes the trailing conveyance indispensable person been pursuing the transportation van — waiting for the close clip to leap successful erstwhile a drop-off was being made.

"They came close aft helium came to my door. As soon arsenic helium came to my door, they pulled up."

Mir moved to Windsor from Brampton successful 2006. He's joined and present has son.

"I haven't seen thing similar that. Windsor was ever considered to beryllium the safer spot. That's wherefore we moved."

Mir says radical utilized to beryllium capable to permission their cars moving successful the country — and not person to interest astir it. After seeing this vehicle theft firsthand, helium says he won't beryllium keeping the cardinal successful his ignition ever again if he's not successful the vehicle.

"I gotta enactment much cameras extracurricular my house, which I program connected doing sometime soon."

However, according to Mir, his neighbourhood is generally "pretty safe" and it's caught him disconnected guard.

"I conscionable consciousness atrocious for the operator due to the fact that his leader was benignant of getting huffy astatine him due to the fact that helium near the cardinal inside. The thoroughfare is busy. There's obscurity helium could person parked, adjacent if helium did park."