A 32-year-old Shreveport man was arrested Saturday night and charged with the slaying of a mailman who was making deliveries on his route in Shreveport’s South Highlands neighborhood. Michael Gentry, of the 1100 block of Dudley Street, was charged with one count of second-degree murder of Antonio Williams. He was booked at the Shreveport City […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Officials have recovered a mail truck in Southaven that was stolen from a mail carrier on route in South Memphis. Around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, police responded to the scene at Florida Street and McKellar Avenue where mail truck was stolen from a United States Postal Service mail carrier. Police said while the […]
DAMASCUS, Md. (ABC7) — A U.S. Postal Service letter carrier is being recognized for delivering heroism on his mail route. Around 11:45 a.m. last Tuesday, mailman Daniel Colon pulled up to a home along Largo Court in Damascus. As he opened a mailbox, Colon noticed smoke wafting into the air. It turned out a Ford […]
LaMonte Earnest, a 13+ year veteran of the U.S. Postal Service, is facing false accusations of criminal threats and animal cruelty after a customer claimed he had kicked down his door, entered his home, and threatened to kill him. Mr. Earnest was taken into custody after the police determined he had an outstanding warrant for […]
11/29/18 Matthew D. Krueger, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on November 27, 2018, a jury found David E. Polnitz, Jr., (age: 39) of Milwaukee, guilty of illegally possessing a firearm and forcibly assaulting, impeding, intimidating or interfering with a United States Postal Service (USPS) Letter Carrier. On June […]
Statement: NALC opposes State Department decision to leave UPU Statement from NALC President Fredric Rolando: 10/23/2018 The U.S. State Department’s announced last week that the U.S. will withdraw from the Universal Postal Union (UPU) after a special meeting of the UPU failed to adopt pricing policies (so-called terminal dues) advocated by the United States at […]
WAREHAM (CBS) – A Taunton postal worker is accused of stealing money from a woman at a Cumberland Farms while in his work uniform. And police say the theft was caught on store surveillance video. Officers later arrested the suspect, Thomas Medeiros, 63, of Wareham, while on his postal route in Taunton. He was charged […]
10/7/18 COLUMBUS, OH (WCMH) – It’s been more than a year and a half after a postal worker tipped police off to a murder scene in South Linden, and police are still searching for suspects. On the afternoon of Wednesday, March 27, 2017, a U.S. postal carrier was making deliveries in the neighborhood when he […]
9/24/18 NEWARK, N.J. – A U.S. Postal Service (USPS) mail carrier was indicted today on charges that he accepted cash bribes in return for intercepting and delivering parcels containing illegal narcotics and conspiring to defraud the United States, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. Fred Rivers, 46, of Newark, was charged by indictment with receiving bribes […]
(LA AP) The coroner’s office says a Los Angeles mail carrier found dead inside her postal truck amid scorching temperatures died primarily from overheating. Temperatures reached 117 degrees (47 Celsius) during the week in July that Peggy Frank died in the Woodland Hills neighborhood. The Orange County Register reports Monday that the 63-year-old died of hyperthermia, or […]