GA Dem. Sen. Campaigns Claim to Have No Association With Couple Arrested in Porch Package Thefts Even Though They Were Distributing Flyers

According to the Augusta Chronicle, a local newspaper in Georgia, the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office arrested two people yesterday who are accused of stealing packages from porches at homes in Evans and Grovetown.

The newspaper reported that according to Maj. Steve Morris, a deputy conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle suspected to be involved in package theft and driven by 19-year-old Santina Walker.

Morris said that when investigators arrived, they reportedly found several packages and items that appeared to be new in the trunk which were subsequently returned to their owners, while the unpackaged items were taken on property receipts.

Walker and her passenger, Cesar Guerrero, 19, were charged with four counts of misdemeanor theft by taking while Guerrero was additionally charged with felony obstruction for punching a deputy multiple times in the head while being taken into custody, Morris said.

Both confessed to taking the packages Tuesday and Wednesday while doing their jobs distributing political fliers in support of Democratic Senate runoff candidates Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, Morris said.

Spokespeople for the candidates claimed, however, that the pair were not associated with the candidates’ campaigns.

Warnock and Ossoff Campaign spokespeople Terrence Clark and Miryam Lipper said in what appears to be a joint statement that “These individuals are not associated with or paid by our campaigns and we strongly condemn this criminal activity.”

Walker had been previously arrested in 2018 on a shoplifting charge when she was a minor.