Jaireme Barrow, of Tacoma, says his "Blank Box" business is booming. The package — an empty booby-trapped box — is left on a porch. But it’s rigged with fishing wire and a 12-gauge shotgun ...

The box is rigged with fishing wire and a 12-gauge shotgun blank that goes off when thieves pick it up. Barrow says he created the device after dozens of packages were stolen from his home almost ...