Armed robbery of postal workers prompts Mass. school to go on lockdown
From the article: "Masked suspects held a postal worker at gunpoint in Billerica...approached a postal mail carrier and took out a gun..."
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From the article: "Masked suspects held a postal worker at gunpoint in Billerica...approached a postal mail carrier and took out a gun..."
From the article: "...It took months and the intervention of a local news channel to get the USPS to take responsibility for the incident ...Muir checked the house’s Ring cameras. And that’s when he saw it; a mail truck slowly rolled down the street with no driver. The mail carrier ran up and hopped in the truck, but as soon as he hopped in, it appeared that he hit the gas, slamming into the back of Muir Jetta hard enough that it actually moved the sedan forward a few feet.
Rather than get out to survey the damage or tell Muir what happened, the mailman backed up and drove off. Muir immediately called his local post office to file a claim over the accident but got months of the run around from USPS."
From the article: "...A community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn is feeling uneasy after a video showed a man stealing mail from a postal box on a street corner. ..."
From the article: "...MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Postal Police officers say they want to help curb crime but are limited. The union president believes a recent robbery could lead to even more problems.
Frank Albergo leads the National Postal Police Officers Union.
“We can make a difference in a city where there are Postal Police like Memphis,” Albergo said.
Postal Police officers are the uniformed division of the postal service stationed at major postal facilities as security.
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From the article: "...Darian Smith, employed as a rural carrier associate purchased new Ford Mustang A United States Postal Service (USPS) employee in California, Maryland, has been charged with multiple federal offenses following allegations of mail theft and check fraud. Darian Smith, employed as a rural carrier associate at the California Post Office, is accused of stealing checks from mail along his route and depositing them into his personal bank account...."
From the article: "There has been a significant increase in mail theft, which has raised concerns in Alabama and...In the months before she got her money back, she battled with Social Security and her banks and almost could not retrieve the money for her grandchild's college fund. She said she was unsure what she would have done without her savings at Redstone Federal Credit Union...."
From the article: "...A TikTok posted by user Mrs_Denton19 shows what appears to be a USPS worker in Antioch dumping boxes of mail into a dumpster over the weekend. “You gots to be smarter than this! So if yall waiting on something important coming from through the southeast region of Nashville well its in my backyard dumpster,” the user wrote. ..."
From the article: "...Two Former Postal Workers Charged with Stealing U.S. Treasury Checks Valued at more than $4 Million from Kennedy Airport Mail Facility. ..."
From the article: "Stolen mail was found inside a stolen car. Cobb County police say the woman with the car used to work for the U.S. Postal Service. ...woman identified as 39-year-old Ebony Williams get in the vehicle. "It was a rental car. The rental car company had reported the car as stolen because the person who rented the car did not return the vehicle on purpose ..."
From the article: "...Police in Chicago are investigating after a United States Postal Service worker was shot and killed Friday. Police said the woman was delivering mail when someone in a car drove by and shot her. Officials are now looking for the person responsible for killing Octavia Redmond...."
From the article: "...According to United States Attorney Prim F. Escalona, Derrell Matthews, 27, to 63 months in prison. Matthews pleaded guilty to conspiracy, paying a bribe to a public official, possession of U.S. Postal Service keys, stolen or reproduced, bank fraud and possession of stolen mail in February. Two other people were previously sentenced in the scheme. Keaundria Gresham, 30, of Pleasant Grove..."
From the article: "...In each instance, two men wearing hoodies, face masks and blue plastic gloves parked near the USPS vehicle, broke the passenger window and stole mail and packages. They took off in a white SUV. ..."
From the article: "...ROCHESTER, NY – Nathan Romar Arnold, a 23-year-old Rochester resident, pleaded guilty to charges of possessing a United States Postal Service (USPS) key and theft of mail, U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today. These charges could lead to a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Assistant U.S. Attorney Katelyn M. Hartford, who is prosecuting the case, detailed the incidents that occurred on October 1 and 2, 2023. Arnold, along with accomplices, targeted USPS mail receptacles near the USPS Brighton Station Post Office on N. Winton Road, the Greece Post Office on Latta Road, and the Jefferson Road Post Office. The group used a stolen key from a USPS letter carrier to unlawfully access and steal mail for personal gain...."
From the article: "...PROVIDENCE, RI – A Providence man who previously admitted to his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy, which involved a plot to kidnap a U.S Postal Service employee while members of the conspiracy searched for missing cocaine that had been shipped from Puerto Rico, was sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Zachary Cunha. 36-year-old Irving Medina pleaded guilty..."
From the article: "...Former United States Postal Service mail carrier Quadri Garnes, a registered sex offender from Brooklyn who served time for a 1994 attempted rape conviction, faces federal charges after he exploded over the phone Sept. 29, 2022, at two state Labor Department workers, threatening to shoot up a post office and kill several people. ..."
From the article: "ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Marlene Cruz, 40, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to theft of mail matter by officer or employee..."
From the article: "...Grayden said on Jan. 24, she mailed a quarterly check to the IRS to pay for her taxes. She even paid extra to send it via certified mail because she thought that would be the safest way to make sure someone at the IRS signed off on receiving the check. Then, on Feb. 15, Grayden said she saw a pending payment in her bank account for an amount she didn't recognize. When she looked at an image of the check on her bank's website, she realized the check number matched the one she sent to the IRS, but the amount on it was changed to $9,000. ..."
From the article: "Alabama Postal worker sells USPS key, then hundreds of pieces of mail are stolen, feds say. ...she sold a USPS key for $2,500 — resulting in hundreds of pieces of mail stolen in Alabama. While a mail carrier at a post office in Prichard, the woman stole a USPS “arrow” key and sold it to a “co-conspirator” in exchange for cash in October 2022, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Alabama. This co-conspirator used the key, which opens all the blue USPS collection boxers in a specific region, to steal mail, prosecutors said..."
From the article: "...According to court records, between January and May 2023, Joaquin opened and stole the contents of greeting cards from his postal route. ..."
From the article: "“I was finishing up my shift for the day,” the letter carrier said. “Last street of my route.” The carrier — who asked NBC Bay Area not to reveal his identity — said it happened at around 4:15 p.m. Thursday. He was returning to his truck when he noticed something was wrong. “I immediately noticed that all my belongings that I had in there were...Fitch added: “The postal vehicle was broken into. We’re still trying to determine exactly what was taken. But for breaking into the vehicle and taking US mail, the reward has gone up. The original reward for these kind of vehicle break-ins and taking mail — stealing mail was $10,000. Now it’s $100,000.” "