4/5/17 – A West Seneca mail carrier who claims he was running late with deliveries admitted Wednesday to stealing money from some of his mail. Richard D’Arcy Jr. also admitted dumping undelivered mail from his West Seneca route in a mailbox near his home in South Buffalo. Assistant U.S. Attorney Marie P. Grisanti said investigators […]
In meetings on postal reform efforts, Senator’s key priority is protecting delivery for rural Missourians Wednesday, March 29, 2017 WASHINGTON – Ensuring continued Postal Service access in Missouri’s small towns and rural communities was the focus of meetings U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill had with representatives from the National Association of Letter Carriers and the American Postal […]
4/5/17 – A carjacker sporting a bullet-proof vest who shot a mailman in the Bronx is a parolee recently arrested for three other crimes, officials said Wednesday. Clarence Brooks is accused of forcing an off-duty mailman out of his car at gunpoint on E. 232nd St. and Carpenter Ave. in Wakefield Tuesday afternoon. As Brooks, […]
4/4/17 – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Yesterday, ROBERT JORDAN CHILES, 32, of Oklahoma City, was sentenced by United States District Judge Stephen P. Friot to serve 30 months in federal prison for buying over $41,000 of postage stamps with checks backed by insufficient funds, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. Chiles was […]
SEATTLE (Courthouse News – June Williams) -April 5, 2017 – A federal judge Tuesday stopped Seattle from implementing a law allowing Uber and Lyft drivers to unionize, and granted the Chamber of Commerce a temporary injunction against it. U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik granted the U.S. Chamber of Commerce a temporary restraining order against requiring companies from […]
HAZARD, Ky. (WYMT)- One Perry County family wants answers after they caught two separate mail carriers on camera, allegedly kicking and spraying one of their dogs. The owners said both incidents happened within a week of each other and involved their 5-month-old Jack Russell, Rosie. According to Rosie’s Owner, Tristian Dillon, they first saw surveillance video […]
JENSEN BEACH — 4/4/17 – A postal worker was arrested Monday after deputies said she stole $904 of mail containing checks and gift cards from at least four customers, according to a Martin County Sheriff’s Office arrest report. Robin Lee Poetzsch, 59, of the 3700 block of Northwest Mediterranean Lane, Jensen Beach, was charged with tampering with evidence and […]
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Police are investigating a wild crime spree in the Bronx. It involved two separate carjackings, multiple shots fired, and nearly cost a postal worker his life. A postal truck with a single bullet hole in the windshield is the result of one of six total crimes police say were committed by the same […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Police had to close a busy west Charlotte road early Tuesday morning after they said a truck crashed into a pole and took down power lines. Police told Channel 9 that a U.S. postal truck was heading toward I-85 when it hit the low-hanging power lines. A pole snapped, and lodged into the […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – 4/3/17 – Antonio Terrell Brown, 31, of Charlotte, a former Charlotte-area mail carrier, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge David Keesler today and pleaded guilty to mail theft for his involvement in a Jamaican-based lottery fraud scheme, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. According to today’s […]