Newspapers stolen from driveways on Long Island

MILLER PLACE, N.Y. (WABC) -- Police confirm they are looking into reports that more than 60 newspapers have been stolen from the Sound Beach/Miller Place area in the past two weeks.

Tony Randazzo told Eyewitness News that police are taking a look at his surveillance video which shows a woman jumping out of a truck, coming onto his driveway, and taking his Sunday paper.

"You feel violated. It's a stupid paper. It's a couple of dollars. That's not the point. You're coming onto my property taking something that doesn't belong to you," said Randazzo, a Miller Place resident.

Lucille and her husband Ron Marschak deliver the newspapers.

They say they began noticing that every Sunday newspapers they had just dropped off were reported undelivered.

It went on for weeks.

They realized someone must be taking them.

"We were trying to do things backwards, we didn't know where they were coming from," said Lucille Marshack, a newspaper carrier.

"I tried to go through the area a couple times to see if I could see anybody, I couldn't," said Ron Marshack, a newspaper carrier.

They decided to track the person down.

"It had to come to an end. We had to find out what's going on," Lucille Marshack said.

The enlisted the help of coworkers and they ended up finding the car and two women in the back of the McDonalds in Miller Place.

"Where they were pulling the coupons and throwing out the rest of the paper, and they got a license plate, and eventually we went to the police," Lucille Marshack said.

It's unclear if the woman in the video is the one they saw at the McDonalds.

But either way, the Marshacks want everyone to know that taking newspapers hurts not only the homeowner who pays for it but for delivery people like them who have to pay out of their own pockets when newspapers go missing.

"The customer still has to get their paper no matter what," Lucille Marshack said.

"We have to make good as part of our job," Ron Marshack said.

Their boss said that he will reimburse them for the papers.

The plate number of the car has been given to police.