{"id":17801,"date":"2017-01-21T10:40:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T15:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=17801"},"modified":"2017-01-21T10:40:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T15:40:24","slug":"video-feds-team-up-with-state-local-agencies-to-crack-down-on-mail-thieves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/01\/21\/video-feds-team-up-with-state-local-agencies-to-crack-down-on-mail-thieves\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Feds team up with state, local agencies to crack down on mail thieves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script height=\"433px\" width=\"770px\" src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/iframe.js#ec=JkODUzOTE6BAQzxPqAvAr0VFffLQwwKF&#038;pbid=3ce6404476914e86994d87aac3e4391b\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: #212121; line-height: 32px; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; 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;\">SALT LAKE CITY \u2013 There\u2019s a renewed push from federal investigators to track down mail thieves and prosecute them, and it was a busy holiday season for the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in Utah.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: #212121; line-height: 32px; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; 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;\">Friday, they announced the arrests of several suspects for mail theft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: #212121; line-height: 32px; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; 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;\">Investigators say Michael Rucker and Britney Knight followed a mail truck in a Cottonwood Heights neighborhood and stole packages from porches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: #212121; line-height: 32px; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; 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 pair allegedly sped away from police in their vehicle,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>nearly hitting elderly pedestrians on December 16.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: #212121; line-height: 32px; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; 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;\">Darren Jensen was arrested at a laundromat after police found him going through duffel bags full of stolen mail. He told police he was looking for money and gift cards to buy meth. He faces 13 counts of mail theft and possession of meth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: #212121; line-height: 32px; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; 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;\">Misty Angell is accused of stealing mail from mailboxes in Magna.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: #212121; line-height: 32px; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; 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;\">\u201cThere&#8217;s these people out there in society, real world society, who are &#8216;Grinches&#8217; and there are people like the &#8216;Whos&#8217; down in Whoville,\u201d said John Huber, U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah. <a href=\"http:\/\/fox13now.com\/2017\/01\/20\/federal-investigators-team-up-with-state-local-agencies-to-crack-down-on-mail-thieves\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: #212121; line-height: 32px; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; 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=\"size-full wp-image-17803 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Utah-Porch-Pirates.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Utah-Porch-Pirates.jpg 465w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Utah-Porch-Pirates-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY \u2013 There\u2019s a renewed push from federal investigators to track down mail thieves and prosecute them, and it was a busy holiday season for the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in Utah. Friday, they announced the arrests of several suspects for mail theft. Investigators say Michael Rucker and Britney Knight followed a mail truck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17801","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\/17801","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=17801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17804,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17801\/revisions\/17804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}