---
title: "Badass Nanny Takes Down a Package Thief After the Getaway Driver Bails"
description: "Wasn't this a Vin Diesel movie?"
date: "2017-12-05"
modified: "2019-06-19"
authors:
  - name: "Kyle Cheromcha"
    job_title: "Editor-in-Chief"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/kyle-cheromcha"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/16703/badass-nanny-takes-down-a-package-thief-after-the-getaway-driver-bails"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Crime"
  - "package"
  - "Thief"
  - "Washington"
---

# Badass Nanny Takes Down a Package Thief After the Getaway Driver Bails

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Delightful as they may be, the holidays are fraught with peril: [Drunk drivers,](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/16672/man-scores-his-seventh-drunk-driving-arrest-after-crashing-corvette-at-10-a-m>) annoying relatives, and yes, package thieves. In this era of online shopping, it's all too easy for someone to swipe your package off the front porch when you're not around. So if you'd like to guard against that, we suggest giving Seattle-area nanny Kate Anderson a call.

[*KCPQ News* reports](<https://q13fox.com/2017/12/01/nanny-chases-package-thief-holds-her-until-cops-arrive/>) that Anderson was watching her friend's one-year-old child at a house in Everett, Washington during the day last week when a delivery driver dropped off a large package at the front door. As it happens, The friend's husband had just installed a Ring [outdoor security](<https://best.wcpo.com/essential-components-of-an-outdoor-security-system>) camera facing the driveway and street; as she noted, their house is located on a busy corner.

Ten minutes after the delivery, the [surveillance video](<https://youtu.be/i1-SfUvmU8E>) shows a grey Cadillac SRX pull up to the edge of the driveway. A woman in a hooded jacket hops out of the passenger seat and jogs to the front door to grab the package. After struggling with it for a few moments, she sprints back towards the vehicle with her prize—but by that point, Anderson is already screaming expletives and running out of the house in hot pursuit. Seeing this, the getaway driver takes off with the loot before the [thief](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/15118/lingerie-thieves-lead-cops-on-a-fiery-car-chase>) can actually get into the car, leaving her sprawled in the street.

https://youtube.com/embed/i1-SfUvmU8E

She tries to flee, but Anderson manages to take her down and lead her back to the driveway to wait for police to arrive. It's a pretty comical scene: The [Pacific Northwest air](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/16545/stolen-porsche-found-decades-later-crashed-deep-in-the-oregon-woods>) is filled with the thief's plaintive sobs and Anderson calling her a "f\*\*\*ing piece of s\*\*t" and demanding to know why she thought she could steal from them. The woman makes a few halfhearted attempts to get up and leave, but Anderson shoves her back each time.

All the while, the homeowner's large black dog is running happily around the driveway, soon accompanied by a smaller dog that the thief bizarrely had stuffed in her jacket. We highly recommend watching the video in full.

[According to *KIRO News*,](<https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/everett-nanny-tackles-stops-package-thief/656585418>) Snohomish County sheriff’s deputies arrived on scene about eight minutes later and arrested 29-year-old Rhieanna Schindler, who was also wanted on several outstanding drug warrants. She has reportedly been arrested more than 20 times in the past seven years. The package was filled with items for the baby Anderson was watching.

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"She’s just like a straight baller, she's amazing and doesn't take any crap from anybody," Tanya Smith, the homeowner and mother said.

The Snohomish County Sheriff's Office said it didn't "condone" Anderson's vigilante approach, warning that citizens who attempt to stop criminals are putting themselves or others at risk. Still, they did pass along a note letting her know that they're hiring—coincidentally, her last day as Smith's nanny was last Friday. And she told [*KIRO News*](<https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/everett-nanny-tackles-stops-package-thief/656585418>) she doesn't regret a thing.

"I think I would \[do it again\]. I didn't ever feel like she was a threat to me," she said. "So I think I would've handled it the same way, yes, because it’s just not OK to go around doing that. It’s so not OK with me."

## Author
Overseeing an expert staff of writers and editors from his lair in Los Angeles, Kyle shapes The Drive’s singular approach to covering the automotive industry and car culture. He’s been with the site as a writer since 2017, taking over as editor in 2019. On a daily basis, Kyle is responsible for directing The Drive's editorial news and car review content strategies, setting special coverage priorities, managing complex reporting projects, and ensuring what you read on the page meets our high internal standards for quality and trustworthiness. He is also the executive producer of The Drive's YouTube channel, which was relaunched in February 2024 to great acclaim and has accumulated over 14M new views in its first year back on the scene. He hosts a biweekly series on the channel where he breaks down fascinating and complicated stories from the automotive world.

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