Hours after being released on bond on a charge of breaking into a Boynton Beach post office, a former postal employee was back behind bars Sunday after police said he pulled a gun in a robbery and attempted carjacking at a Sonic Drive-In.
Francis Keller, 56, was arrested just after midnight after officers were called to the fast-food restaurant at 320 Winchester Park Blvd., according to Boynton Beach police.
The officers spotted Keller and recognized him as the man they had arrested Friday night as he was opening packages inside the U.S. Post Office at 217 N. Seacrest Blvd., in Boynton Beach. He was released from jail Saturday afternoon, records indicate.
On Friday night, police alerted by an alarm found Keller using scissors to open packages inside the branch post office at 217 N. Seacrest Blvd. He told officers he was looking for valuables to steal so he could buy crack, police said.
Keller told officers that he had worked for the post office for 30 years and got into the building using an old security code.
Source: Man, 56, jailed twice in same weekend after break-in, robbery attempt, cops say – Sun Sentinel
Ex-Postal Worker breaks into Post Office using old security code to steal items from packages
30 years working for the PO, retires, then robs the PO he worked at for years. Crackhead finds home and possibly loses his Retirement and benefits. Well, look at the bright side, he will be getting 3 squares a day, a roof over his head, and constant supervision in Prison. The only question left, will he be going to the Federal prison in Leavenworth, KS, or a State Prison in beautiful Florida. Sounds like he had a plan!
At 56 years of age, one would think somebody would learn at least a little something along the way. But that doesn’t happen as much as we wish it would. I know of many people old enough to know better who need serious help with lifelong addictions.
Meth is rampant, cheap, and a plague on all of us. Crack doesn’t get the headlines it used to, but as evidenced here, it hasn’t gone away, either. And I know too many who drink excessively, too. It’s very difficult to know what the right way to react is. One part of us views those people as thugs like this former postal worker who victimize innocent people to get a fix. They are selfish and weak and ought to be locked up for life.
But I have a nephew who works with the homeless and those with real problems with drugs, alcohol and whatever else they can get their hands on, and he reports that many are truly mentally ill to begin with, had horrible home environments, or had very bad experiences that steered them down a very bad road.
I gave up drinking 23 years ago, and used to smoke pot, but that was 30 years ago. I nonetheless endangered myself and innocent people when I drove drunk from bars, clubs and parties, like millions do. Perhaps it was just medicine when I got in a string of accidents that I wasn’t at fault for, but one was drunk as a skunk and hit me head on. Wake up call, dumbass.
Still, for some, the only way they quit is either die or like this guy, get busted and put away, even though you can get drugs almost as easily in prison as you can on a dark street corner. The USPS offers counseling and will help with folks with substance abuse problems, but it’s worthless if a person is too stubborn, stupid, or weak to take advantage of a generous program that can clean them up and save their job. At this point my sympathy runs out. Once innocents are hurt, it’s a different situation.