{"id":27267,"date":"2019-09-18T07:07:47","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T12:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=27267"},"modified":"2019-09-18T07:07:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T12:07:47","slug":"customer-says-he-felt-abandoned-by-postal-workers-during-armed-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/09\/18\/customer-says-he-felt-abandoned-by-postal-workers-during-armed-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Customer says he felt abandoned by postal workers during armed robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/cdn2.trb.tv\/iframe.html?ec=c0czJpaTE6pcXMlH3YAFTK0O74tjWbEO&amp;pbid=ffbcf8e010eb4c238d3dda4eb935d806&amp;pcode=J5b3E62qXs0__5N6rt4w1q4FbPSD\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/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: 400; 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; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">HELENA-WEST HELENA, Ark. \u2014 Police in Helena-West Helena are following leads and vow to make an arrest in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/2019\/09\/16\/post-office-bank-robbed-by-man-in-helena-west-helena\/\">Monday&#8217;s armed robbery<\/a>\u00a0of a bank and attempted robbery of a post office. Now, new evidence is emerging.<\/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: 400; 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; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">When the gunman wearing a &#8220;Scream&#8221; mask entered the post office lobby, employees went into a safe area, allegedly abandoning customer Jay Southard in the open with the armed man.<\/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: 400; 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; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">&#8220;I was blessed,&#8221; Southard said. &#8220;The Lord looked after me that day because I was totally, totally vulnerable. There&#8217;s nothing I could have done.&#8221;<\/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: 400; 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; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Southard says he feared for his life when an armed robber entered the West Helena branch of the U.S. Post Office. He said he was just trying to mail a package and was the only customer in the lobby.<\/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: 400; 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; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">&#8220;I&#8217;d just run my credit card, and the door opened behind me,&#8221; Southard said. &#8220;And the clerk started yelling, &#8216;Get out, get out, get out,&#8217; and disappeared.&#8221; More at <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/2019\/09\/17\/customer-says-he-felt-abandoned-by-postal-workers-during-armed-robbery\/\">WREG<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27269\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Ark-PO-Robbey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Ark-PO-Robbey.jpg 320w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Ark-PO-Robbey-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HELENA-WEST HELENA, Ark. \u2014 Police in Helena-West Helena are following leads and vow to make an arrest in\u00a0Monday&#8217;s armed robbery\u00a0of a bank and attempted robbery of a post office. 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