{"id":26056,"date":"2019-04-07T10:42:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T15:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=26056"},"modified":"2019-04-07T10:42:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T15:42:47","slug":"memphis-postal-worker-arrested-after-police-say-he-lied-about-being-robbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/04\/07\/memphis-postal-worker-arrested-after-police-say-he-lied-about-being-robbed\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis postal worker arrested after police say he lied about being robbed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/cdn2.trb.tv\/iframe.html?ec=d1MHZraDE6U5sutwfrUFpa_Dhgi9zKOe&amp;pbid=ffbcf8e010eb4c238d3dda4eb935d806&amp;pcode=J5b3E62qXs0__5N6rt4w1q4FbPSD\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>MEMPHIS, Tenn. \u2014 One of the three reported postal worker robberies has turned out to be a hoax, police said, landing the alleged victim behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>Cortney Harris, 37, told police he was delivering mail Friday around 11:20 a.m. in South Memphis when a man came up behind him and threatened to shoot him if he didn\u2019t hand over everything he had. Harris told police he forked over $40.<\/p>\n<p>Transfixed neighbors watched Friday as police and postal inspectors scoured the Benford-Joubert intersection looking for witnesses and evidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, they were everywhere. I\u2019ve never seen them go door-to-door,\u201d resident Gloria Holmes said.<\/p>\n<p>But Holmes, a former postal worker herself, said she still had doubts about Harris\u2019 story from the start.<\/p>\n<p>Police said he eventually admitted to making up the robbery, but they didn\u2019t say why.<\/p>\n<p>A woman at Harris\u2019 Raleigh home shut the door as WREG tried asking about a possible motive. <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/2019\/04\/06\/postal-worker-arrested-after-police-say-he-lied-about-being-robbed\/\">WREG<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26057\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Cortney-Harris.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Cortney-Harris.jpg 498w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Cortney-Harris-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Cortney-Harris-80x55.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEMPHIS, Tenn. \u2014 One of the three reported postal worker robberies has turned out to be a hoax, police said, landing the alleged victim behind bars. Cortney Harris, 37, told police he was delivering mail Friday around 11:20 a.m. in South Memphis when a man came up behind him and threatened to shoot him if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26056","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\/26056","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=26056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26058,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26056\/revisions\/26058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}