{"id":39666,"date":"2026-06-21T11:48:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T16:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=39666"},"modified":"2026-06-21T11:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T16:48:06","slug":"chicago-man-arrested-and-arraigned-for-burglaries-related-to-mail-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2026\/06\/21\/chicago-man-arrested-and-arraigned-for-burglaries-related-to-mail-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Man Arrested and Arraigned for Burglaries Related to Mail Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chicago, IL<\/strong> \u2013 6\/10\/26 &#8211; Ahmad Salamah, 32, of Harwood Heights, IL, was arraigned June 4, 2026, on three felony counts of burglary. Salamah was arrested after being identified as the suspect responsible for multiple burglary and mail theft incidents in the Chicagoland area beginning in May 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the investigation conducted by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Harwood Heights and Summit Police Departments, Salamah was charged by the Illinois Attorney General\u2019s Office. Additional charges are possible as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis arrest is a statement that mail theft will not be tolerated, and the perpetrators will be brought to justice,\u201d said Nicholas Bucciarelli, inspector in charge of the Chicago Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. \u201cThe Postal Inspection Service will continue to partner with other law enforcement agencies to collectively pursue criminals who victimize postal customers.\u201d The Postal Inspection Service appreciates the assistance of the Harwood Heights and Summit Police Departments in this investigation as well as the continued partnership with the Illinois Attorney General\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to note that criminal charges are only allegations against a person. Every defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/495-Theft.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-39388\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/495-Theft-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/495-Theft-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/495-Theft-30x30.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago, IL \u2013 6\/10\/26 &#8211; Ahmad Salamah, 32, of Harwood Heights, IL, was arraigned June 4, 2026, on three felony counts of burglary. Salamah was arrested after being identified as the suspect responsible for multiple burglary and mail theft incidents in the Chicagoland area beginning in May 2023. Based on the investigation conducted by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-theftandfraud","category-postal-crime","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39666","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=39666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39667,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39666\/revisions\/39667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}