CYPRESS, Texas (KTRK) — A Cypress woman vows never to use DoorDash again after her doorbell camera caught a delivery driver’s passenger stealing a scooter from her porch.

The victim told ABC13 that the incident happened on Monday afternoon after she used the app to place a Chick-fil-A order.

Just after 4 p.m., a video obtained by ABC13 shows a gray car pull up to her home. The driver gets out and drops the order off on her porch.

But minutes after the customer’s daughter picks up the food, the camera shows a barefoot man walking up to the house and stealing her daughter’s friend’s $700 scooter.

He then races back to a car that the Harris County Precinct 4 Constable’s Office said was being driven by the DoorDash driver.

“It’s pretty bold to do something like that in the middle of the day somewhere where every house has cameras,” the customer, who asked not to be identified, said.

She said she contacted DoorDash only to learn that the company may not even know who was driving for them.

“It was a male who dropped off the order but under a female’s name,” she said.

ABC13 asked DoorDash about its screening process and whether drivers were permitted to bring passengers with them to their deliveries. Eyewitness News also asked if the customer would be compensated for the loss of the scooter.

DoorDash sent the following statement, which didn’t address those questions:

“What happened is absolutely unacceptable and clearly violates our policies. We have immediately deactivated the Dasher account involved. We deeply regret any stress and inconvenience this has caused the customer and have offered our support.”

Meanwhile, the victim said that after years of using DoorDash, she won’t be using it again.

“It’s been convenient and great, but now that they’re hiring the type of people they’re bringing into our very nice and safe neighborhood, I don’t trust it at all anymore,” she said.

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A City of Houston park ranger has been arrested and charged with official oppression following one man’s hourslong ordeal at Cullen Park.

Joey Lamar Ellis, 33, was booked into jail Tuesday morning. The Houston Parks and Recreation Department confirms they were notified about the park ranger’s arrest. City records show Ellis has been employed since 2019.

According to Houston police, officers were called out to Cullen Park on Saums Road at about 3 a.m. for a robbery. There, they met with Joshua Beede, who talked to ABC13 on Tuesday night.

“It’s not right what he (Ellis) did,” Beede said.

Beede said he was sleeping in his car at the park when a man driving a truck with police lights and wearing park ranger attire knocked on his window and threatened him.

“He said he was going to have my car towed away. I was going to be arrested, sent downtown, and see a judge the next morning,” Beede rattled off.

The man had a gun in his pocket, which he referenced, Beede said, and he started to make demands. First, he made video recordings of Beede admitting to things he had not done, and then he told him to take off his clothes, “which was super violating,” Beede said.

According to Beede, Ellis took his ID, demanded cash, as well as help with luring gay men to the park through a dating app, presumably, to do the same thing. He says he gave the man $120 and went along with it until he could get away to call 911.

“I was, like, fearful for my life, so I was doing everything he said,” Beede explained.

Police responded and arrested Ellis, adding they found a gun on him.

Houston Parks and Rec declined to comment about the case or Ellis’ status with the department.

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A 62-year-old man accused of killing his wife and putting her body in a freezer took a last-minute plea deal.

Jury selection was set to start Monday morning. Instead, Curtis Allen Holliday pleaded guilty to his wife’s murder in exchange for a 10-year prison sentence, according to attorneys. The deal includes credit for the two years he spent in the Harris County Jail before posting bond.

“Curtis decided it was in his best interest, instead of risking a life sentence. If the jury didn’t agree with us, to take what was offered,” Holliday’s defense attorney, Dick DeGuerin, told ABC13. “He’ll be out in time to continue to raise his daughter.”

This case dates back to 2020.

Holliday was arrested on May 5, 2020, after being charged with violation of bond on a protective order and continuous violence against a family member.

According to court documents, Holliday assaulted his wife, 29-year-old Chi Thi Lien Le, on Nov. 28 and Dec. 25, 2019, and was charged with assault.

Deputies with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office said Le was reported missing in late April 2020 when her family members said they couldn’t reach her for several days. A witness told investigators she was last seen on April 3, 2020.

One month later, deputies conducted a search at Holliday’s business in the 5800 block of North Sam Houston Parkway West, where they found Le’s body wrapped in plastic in a commercial freezer on the property.

Holliday was charged with murder after the medical examiner’s office ruled her death a homicide.

DeGuerin called the plea “guilty with an asterisk” and said his team gathered evidence that Le took her own life.

“We believe this was actually suicide, but he panicked after he found her. Instead of calling police, he put her in a freezer and that’s bizarre,” DeGuerin conceded. “And I don’t know if a jury would have liked that too much.”

Holliday will be formally sentenced in July.