State Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi plans to submit a bill during the next legislative session to clamp down on package theft rings by including their activities in existing RICO statutes. It would make organized package theft a felony.
The Assemblyman and his staff were the victims of package theft themselves, according to Muratsuchi. A package of official items was dropped off at a Huntington Beach-area UPS and “apparently never reached its destination,” Muratsuchi said.