{"id":20591,"date":"2017-08-13T08:15:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T13:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=20591"},"modified":"2017-08-13T08:15:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T13:15:27","slug":"video-postal-worker-carjacked-while-delivering-mail-in-sw-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/08\/13\/video-postal-worker-carjacked-while-delivering-mail-in-sw-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Postal worker carjacked while delivering mail in SW Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/abc13.com\/video\/embed\/?pid=2301472\" width=\"476\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; 8\/12\/17 &#8211; Federal charges and local charges are pending against a man accused of taking a postal carriers mail truck in a carjacking this afternoon and trying, unsuccessfully, to carjack two other people an hour earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Houston police said a woman was approached on South Post Oak by a man who pointed a gun at her and demanded her car. She got away. A few minutes later in a southwest Houston neighborhood, Robert Dickerson said he too was targeted by the same man.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He put the gun in my face. I put my hands up and at some point he just walked off. He didn&#8217;t pull me out of the truck. He didn&#8217;t touch my vehicle. He just turned and walked away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dickerson called police. A few minutes later, there was another call from the mail carrier, who had stopped at a neighborhood postal box. The suspect pointed what appeared to be a gun at him according to postal service inspectors. Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/abc13.com\/police-houston-postal-worker-carjacked-while-delivering-mail\/2301149\/\">ABC 13 Houston<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20593\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Houston-Carrier-Carjacked.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"539\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Houston-Carrier-Carjacked.jpg 539w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Houston-Carrier-Carjacked-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Houston-Carrier-Carjacked-122x74.jpg 122w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Houston-Carrier-Carjacked-120x74.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; 8\/12\/17 &#8211; Federal charges and local charges are pending against a man accused of taking a postal carriers mail truck in a carjacking this afternoon and trying, unsuccessfully, to carjack two other people an hour earlier. Houston police said a woman was approached on South Post Oak by a man who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20591","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\/20591","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=20591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20594,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20591\/revisions\/20594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}