"... A 26-year-old contracted Amazon delivery driver, Blake Coleman, has been charged with shooting U.S. Postal Service carrier Anthony Santoro in the..." Source: www.yahoo.com
"Shea Anderson, a resident in the area, expressed concern about the safety of mail carriers. “These mailmen aren’t safe. This is sad. It’s really sad,” Anderson said. ... “This is insane. What is the purpose of robbing the mailman? Probably to get checks like yours. Wow! That’s crazy. We got bills. We got kids. This is insane,” Anderson said.
Officers used police K-9s to track the suspects but were unsuccessful ..." Source: www.whec.com
"... A 45-year-old Springfield man has been indicted by federal grand jury for allegedly assaulting a U.S. Postal Service worker who was delivering mail in the Seminole Holland neighborhood.
A felony complaint initially was filed against Courtney Ellis on June 23 alleging that on the morning of June 18 he assaulted a postal worker delivering mail to his home in the 1900 block of South Virginia Avenue with a wooden board and continued to aggressively approach the worker. The grand jury indictment replaced this initial felony complaint. ..." Source: www.news-leader.com
"... A metro Atlanta small business says customer checks are repeatedly being intercepted in the mail and stolen before ever getting to them.
“We’ve had over 20 checks and it’s over $4,000,” Page Cade, of A&A Exterminators, said. “We’re having customers calling and saying I haven’t been serviced. And we say, well, we haven’t received your check.”
All the stolen A&A checks have been mobile deposited to a Regions Bank account. ..." Source: www.wsbtv.com
"... LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Complaints about missing mail in the Okolona area have led to a federal investigation, and now, a United States Postal Service employee has resigned.
The USPS Office of Inspector General confirmed an allegation of mail dumping was made at the Okolona Post Office last week. Several residents recently said they haven't received mail in weeks and worry it may be connected to the incident.
"I hope mine wasn't in there," Terry Herp, a postal customer, said outside the Okolona branch Tuesday.
According to the OIG, mail was found inside an employee's vehicle parked on postal property. ..." Source: www.wdrb.com
"Vicki Stuart, 64, was charged with 34 counts related to the ballot theft scheme, which occurred in the lead-up to last year’s presidential election. She pleaded guilty to one count of identity theft and one count of forgery in the 21st Judicial District Court. ... Stuart and another woman stole more than a dozen ballots from Mesa County residents before they could be delivered to the intended voters. The goal, prosecutors said, was to test the state’s voting safeguards.
The scheme was uncovered when some voters alerted authorities after the Colorado Ballot tracking system informed them their ballots were being processed, even though they hadn’t received their ballots yet. ..." Source: www.cpr.org
"... Martinel Humphries, 30, received a 120-month sentence from U.S. District Judge Christy Criswell Wiegand on April 9, 2025, in federal court in Pittsburgh.
According to information presented in court, Humphries fired four shots from a semi-automatic pistol at a mail carrier on January 5, 2023.
At the time of the incident, Humphries was on federal supervised release from a 2021 conviction for possessing a firearm as a felon. He also had two previous firearm convictions from arrests in 2013 and 2015..." Source: www.explorejeffersonpa.com
"... Police said the postal workers were targeted for their mail key.
The United States Postal Service encourages people to deposit mail at secure locations, including inside your local post office or at your place of business, or hand it directly to the letter carrier.
Police ask anyone with information about these robberies to call First Precinct Detective T. Wilson at (804) 646-0672 or Fourth Precinct Detective J. Land at (804) 646-3103 or Crime Stoppers at (804) 780-1000. The P3 Tips Crime Stoppers app for smartphones may also be used. All Crime Stoppers reporting methods are anonymous. ..." Source: www.wtvr.com
"... Mail carriers are continuing their routes despite many USPS trucks and vans often displaying graffiti that obscures their logos and makes them look unrecognizable as federal government vehicles.
"I think it's dangerous for the postal workers and the community because you can't see who's in here. You don't know that this is a government vehicle at all," said Jasmine Bessard, a former Oakland resident who works near the downtown post office and passes the tagged-up vans almost daily. ..." Source: www.cbsnews.com
"A postal employee was shot and killed at the United States Postal Service Processing and Distribution Center in Tukwila, Washington, on Tuesday... The shooter fled the scene and has not been located as of 7 p.m. local time, according to police.
Tukwila police said they have reason to believe the victim and suspect were acquainted, but the motive for the shooting remains unknown...." Source: www.wbal.com
"A former United States Postal Service supervisor from Compton has admitted to being a serial mail thief...Joivian Tjuana Hayes, 36, of Compton, pleaded guilty Friday to one count ..." Source: www.latimes.com
"... Michael Murray, 37, of Lynn will be sentenced in February. ...A former clerk for the United States Postal Service in Revere and Melrose admitted on Monday to stealing hundreds of pieces of mail in 2023, authorities announced.
Michael Murray, 37, of Lynn pleaded guilty to one count of theft of mail matter by an employee and one count of theft of government money in federal court, according to the office of U.S. Attorney Leah Foley. He was previously indicted by a grand jury last year. " Source: www.boston.com
"... information released by the DOJ, 47-year-old Gabriel Ekram Pagabe Ali sexually assaulted the victim while on duty as a Postmaster at the U.S. Post Office in Teaneck, New Jersey. ... The indictment states that Ali deprived the victim of her right to bodily integrity when he sexually assaulted the victim and forcibly assaulted the victim while she was engaged in official duties. ..." Source: phl17.com
"... A teenager was charged in connection with the armed robbery of a postal worker, Billerica police announced.
The teenager, 15, of Lowell, was arrested and charged with armed robbery while masked, assault and battery, assault with a dangerous weapon, larceny from a person and use of a firearm in a felony. ..." Source: www.masslive.com
"...The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is currently on the hunt for two suspects involved in an armed robbery of a postal worker in Augusta, Georgia, offering a substantial sum for information leading to their apprehension. This high-profile case has led the agency to announce a reward of up to $150,000 for details that can help bring the perpetrators to justice, as reported by FOX 5 Atlanta. ..." Source: hoodline.com
"...A US Postal Service worker allegedly tossed about 300 mailers in support of New Jersey Republican Rep. Tom Kean, Jr., into a dumpster outside a Pennsylvania supermarket two weeks ago — and the caught-on-camera incident may have cost her the job.
A security company worker watched as the unidentified woman — who was clad in a USPS uniform ..." Source: www.aol.com
"... Debra Watson, of Chicopee, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to obstruction of mails, according to federal authorities. ..." Source: www.courant.com
"... A U.S. Mail contract postal worker is accused of throwing 1,000 pieces of mail — including at least one mail-in ballot and 400 political mailings — into the woods Tuesday in Orange County instead of delivering the items just before the Nov. 5 election, according to a new federal criminal complaint.
Ottis Nicole McCoy Jr. tossed the mail into a neighborhood cul-de-sac in Alafaya Woods, authorities said in the criminal complaint filed Friday in the U.S. District Court’s Orlando division. ..." Source: floridapolitics.com
"... BRAZOS COUNTY, Texas (KBTX) - Officers with the College Station Police Department (CSPD) arrested two people Tuesday when authorities said stolen bank cards and hundreds of pieces of mail were found on the suspects.
After responding to a call about a suspicious car from a gas station employee, CSPD arrived to the Chevron on FM 158 to find Tarah Hill, 33, of Bryan and Cody Polanco, 24, of Katy asleep inside.
During a search of the vehicle officers reported finding hundreds of pieces of mail not belonging to neither Hill nor Polanco, 19 bank cards, marijuana and controlled substances, and more than $12,600 in cash.
After being arrested Hill admitted the couple stole mail for the last two years, by manufacturing their own keys and breaking into mailboxes. ..." Source: www.kbtx.com
"...Postal Service employee who had been delivering mail at his San Francisco home, unloading an “entire magazine” at him, according to federal prosecutors. More than a year later, on July 18, a judge sentenced 38-year-old Vo Nguyen to 11 years in prison over the shooting, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California announced July 19.
Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article290296824.html#storylink=cpy ..." Source: www.sacbee.com
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