{"id":29399,"date":"2020-10-09T10:02:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T15:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=29399"},"modified":"2020-10-09T10:02:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T15:02:06","slug":"man-finds-ballots-other-mail-tossed-into-trash-cans-in-santa-monica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2020\/10\/09\/man-finds-ballots-other-mail-tossed-into-trash-cans-in-santa-monica\/","title":{"rendered":"Man finds ballots, other mail tossed into trash cans in Santa Monica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/video\/embed\/?pid=6887965\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SANTA MONICA, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; 10\/09\/20 &#8211; There is a mystery brewing in Santa Monica after a man found dozens of mail-in ballots and other important mail tossed into two trash cans.<\/p>\n<p>Osvaldo Jimenez made the first shocking find Thursday in an alley off of Virginia Avenue near 21st Street.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I opened the trash can, and I see a lot of envelopes and ballots, especially ballot envelopes in the trash can, and I knew right away that was not normal,&#8221; said Jimenez.<\/p>\n<p>He found several dozen ballots, bank statements and bills all addressed to homes in the neighborhood, all of it tossed out in the trash.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought it was somebody playing a prank,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Nobody&#8217;s going to throw ballot envelopes in the trash can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He collected all of the mail and called the police.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear how the ballots and all the other pieces of mail ended up in the trash can and that&#8217;s what has Jimenez so concerned. Jimenez later found a second trash can with ballots and unopened mail. Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/santa-monica-mail-ballots-trash-in\/6884527\/\">ABC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29400\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/tossed-mail-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/tossed-mail-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/tossed-mail.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA MONICA, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; 10\/09\/20 &#8211; There is a mystery brewing in Santa Monica after a man found dozens of mail-in ballots and other important mail tossed into two trash cans. Osvaldo Jimenez made the first shocking find Thursday in an alley off of Virginia Avenue near 21st Street. &#8220;I opened the trash can, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-theftandfraud","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29399","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=29399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29401,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29399\/revisions\/29401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}