{"id":17232,"date":"2016-12-03T09:58:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T14:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=17232"},"modified":"2016-12-03T09:58:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T14:58:01","slug":"video-second-memphis-postal-carrier-robbed-at-gunpoint-with-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/12\/03\/video-second-memphis-postal-carrier-robbed-at-gunpoint-with-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Second Memphis postal carrier robbed at gunpoint with weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/WBRC.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=167864191;hostDomain=www.wbrc.com;playerWidth=630;playerHeight=355;isShowIcon=true;clipId=12940949;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixed'><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"WNStoryDateline\" style=\"display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; color: #000000; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">MEMPHIS, TN (WMC) &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">12\/03\/16 &#8211; The United States Postal Service said a postal carrier robbed at gunpoint\u00a0in Memphis on\u00a0Friday. Investigators believe the two crimes were done by the same man.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">The postal carrier was delivering mail in the 600 block of Craft Road Street when she was robbed. It was her second stop on that street in South Memphis when the armed thief pulled up behind her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">&#8220;They pulled up behind her like it wasn&#8217;t no problem, like they were coming up to stop her for so they could get a package or drop off a package,&#8221; one witness said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">The neighbor, who did not want to be identified, watched the robbery happen as he hung his Christmas decorations near his window. He said the woman&#8217;s mail truck was parked a few feet away from a dead end. That unfortunately left her trapped.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">&#8220;She was basically an easy target,&#8221; the witness said. &#8220;To me, it seemed like they were following, and following up behind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">The man said he saw the armed thief jump from his car, force the postal worker to the floor of her truck, and then make multiple trips unloading packages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">&#8220;With people sending stuff out in the mail, ain&#8217;t no telling what they sent and they thinking they sending them through the mail everything will be safe,&#8221; the witness said. &#8220;But, not knowing that these postal workers really catching trouble around this time of year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">The robber is described as a black male, 18-20 years old, 5&#8217;7&#8221;, and weighs between 130-140 pounds. He has dreads and was wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans, armed with a semi automatic handgun.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbrc.com\/story\/33856845\/second-postal-carrier-robbed-at-gunpoint-with-weeks\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17233\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/second-memphis-carrier-robbery.jpg\" alt=\"second-memphis-carrier-robbery\" width=\"449\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/second-memphis-carrier-robbery.jpg 449w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/second-memphis-carrier-robbery-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/second-memphis-carrier-robbery-80x55.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEMPHIS, TN (WMC) &#8211; 12\/03\/16 &#8211; The United States Postal Service said a postal carrier robbed at gunpoint\u00a0in Memphis on\u00a0Friday. Investigators believe the two crimes were done by the same man. The postal carrier was delivering mail in the 600 block of Craft Road Street when she was robbed. It was her second stop on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17234,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17232\/revisions\/17234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}