GOLDEN GATE, Fla.- Neighbors say their mailboxes are getting raided and mail stolen.

It’s happening on 5th Avenue Northwest and at least five mailboxes have been hit multiple times. “They are helping themselves to the mail, opening it and throwing it on the ground,” says one neighbor who didn’t want to share her name.

Neighbors say they are finding mail ripped up and scattered down their street. Some have had checks stolen. “One of my neighbors handed me one of my checks, he found it laying on the side of the road,” says another neighbor. The checks were for her bills; she had to cancel all of them.

“It’s terrible. It’s a federal offense,” says one neighbor. “That’s something everyone has always trusted, the US Post Office and the mail system and now someone is violating it.” Read more