You live there. You're allowed to remove items from your own porch. I think the scenarios would be:
1) Cops show up and and say, "Hey, that was a bait package. Can we get it back?"
2) Same as 1), plus USPS/FedEx/UPS would be unable to locate the tracking number.
3) Cops pull you over, thinking you're a porch pirate. You tell them where you live, and they regret the error, and ask for their bait package back.
(But these scenarios probably wouldn't happen in the first place. I assume that the chosen bait locations were done with the knowledge of the residents.)
4) Cops arrest and charge you with theft over $10000 (the tracker is overpriced), interfering with an investigation, and resisting arrest. You make a deal and plead guilty to resisting arrest in exchange for having the other charges dropped.
In the US everything is possible coming from a cop. Like being pulled over because you're black, having your car searched because it "smells of cannabis", and once nothing is found, they decide to seize $150,000 of your cash through civil forfeiture because you didn't blink the turning light long enough and one of the bills was a counterfeit $20. [0]
1) Cops show up and and say, "Hey, that was a bait package. Can we get it back?"
2) Same as 1), plus USPS/FedEx/UPS would be unable to locate the tracking number.
3) Cops pull you over, thinking you're a porch pirate. You tell them where you live, and they regret the error, and ask for their bait package back.
(But these scenarios probably wouldn't happen in the first place. I assume that the chosen bait locations were done with the knowledge of the residents.)