And that could be a field day for porch pirates, those who steal other’s packages from their porch. Porch theft is a problem that seems to grow exponentially each year around the holidays. But this year, the Harris County Sheriff’s Department is rolling out a new tool to try to stop them. So we decided to go with this area in the Katy area because of the amount of theft reported to FedEx,” said Harris County Theft Investigator Javier Urena. How it worksThe Harris County deputies plant a phony present, like a cell phone in the decoy box, which is also equipped with a hidden tracker.