{"id":35037,"date":"2024-02-08T10:16:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T15:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=35037"},"modified":"2024-02-08T10:16:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T15:16:10","slug":"man-admits-burglarizing-missouri-post-office-twice-in-clown-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2024\/02\/08\/man-admits-burglarizing-missouri-post-office-twice-in-clown-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Admits Burglarizing Missouri Post Office Twice in Clown Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. LOUIS \u2013 2\/7\/24 – A man admitted breaking into a Franklin County, Missouri post office and twice stealing packages while masked.<\/p>\n

Scott Weatherby, 28, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in St. Louis to two counts of burglary of a post office. He admitted breaking into the U.S. Post Office in St. Albans, in northeastern Franklin County, on August 6, 2023. Weatherby was wearing a clown mask at the time he stole packages and again the next day when he returned. After he was identified as a suspect, investigators went to an address associated with him in Pacific, Missouri. Weatherby fled out of the back door of the home but was caught after a brief chase. A clown mask and multiple stolen packages were found in his vehicle.<\/p>\n

Weatherby is scheduled to be sentenced May 7. The is punishable by up to five years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, or both prison and a fine.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Franklin County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Jefferson County Sheriff\u2019s Office investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas Lake is prosecuting the case.<\/p>\n

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ST. LOUIS \u2013 2\/7\/24 – A man admitted breaking into a Franklin County, Missouri post office and twice stealing packages while masked. Scott Weatherby, 28, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in St. Louis to two counts of burglary of a post office. He admitted breaking into the U.S. Post Office in St. Albans, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72,110,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-theftandfraud","category-under-siege","category-postal-crime","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35037","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=35037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35038,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35037\/revisions\/35038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}