After piles of Amazon packages were twice found abandoned around Billerica, police said they decided to take matters into their own hands and deliver them to their rightful owners.

Officer Sam Hawkes said he was patrolling the area of Towne Plaza last week when he spotted what looked like trash near the loading docks. After a closer look, he discovered it was a pile of eight unopened packages.

“I got out of the cruiser to move it closer to the dumpster and it happened to be full packages,” said Hawkes.

Each package was addressed to a Billerica home, so Hawkes and another officer loaded them up and drove them out themselves.

“It was a busy day that day we had those, so we had two full cruisers of gifts while calls were also going on,” said Hawkes. “And then when clear and had a little b

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