PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WPRI) — 6/9/21 – A United States Postal Service worker says he was abducted earlier this month, and court documents indicate it may have been related to drug trafficking.

According to the criminal complaint, the postal carrier reported being forced into a car at gunpoint on the afternoon of June 1 outside an apartment complex on Division Street in Pawtucket.

The masked suspects claimed that a package delivered by the carrier was missing its contents and they drove to the carrier’s home to search it, the complaint says. Upon learning the carrier didn’t have his keys, they returned him to the abduction point.

The victim described the suspect vehicle as a gray or silver 4-door sedan with cracked leather seats, which police were able to identify as a Chrysler 300 using surveillance video from the area. The postal carrier later confirmed that was the vehicle he was taken away in.

In the complaint, U.S. Postal Inspector Richard Atwood explains how in recent weeks, a number of packages were shipped from Puerto Rico to locations in Pawtucket, Providence, Cranston and Johnson, all of which were connected in some way to Edgar Antonio Medina. He also noted how the handwriting on all the parcels matched and they were tracked by the same person or device, which is indicative of someone sending narcotics through the mail.

During the investigation, a K-9 inspected three of those parcels and detected the odor of narcotics. Inside, police found 3.25 kilograms of a white powdery substance wrapped in plastic, which tested positive for cocaine, the complaint says.

While surveilling the delivery locations this week, police were able to identify two additional suspects: Andres Garay and Ronald Hall.

All three men were arrested on a charge of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine. Read more at WPRI