12/24/2019 INDIANAPOLIS — A $10,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of two men who robbed an Indianapolis postal worker at gunpoint. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service issued a press release on Tuesday offering the reward. According to the USPIS, the postal worker was in the area of N. Butler Avenue […]
12/23/2019 Albany man jailed after rear-ending US Postal Service carrier’s vehicle. On Friday, December 20, at approximately 5:24 p.m. the Stearns County Communications Center received a report of a crash with injuries at 21245 County Road 154. This location is just east of County Road 10, and northeast of Albany city limits. Alice Theisen, 60, […]
Defendant shot Shreveport Postal letter carrier while he was delivering mail 12/19/2019 SHREVEPORT, La. – United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a federal grand jury in Shreveport returned a three-count indictment on December 18, 2019, charging Michael 32, of Shreveport, with second degree murder, felon in possession of a firearm, and discharging a […]
12/18/2019 BLOOMSBURG, Pa. — Melissa Stinsman has a special task to add to her postal work duties during the holiday season. She makes sure all the letters with children’s Christmas lists get from the Bloomsburg post office to the big man up north. But she recently noticed one list included gifts that couldn’t be found […]
ASHTABULA, Ohio — An Ohio mail carrier is accused of selling crack cocaine out of her mail truck on her route. Darcy Ann Spangler, 52, of Ashtabula, was arrested Tuesday and charged with trafficking in drugs and aggravated trafficking in drugs, according to the Ashtabula County Sheriff’s Office. The Crime Enforcement Agency of Ashtabula County, […]
Dwight Eisenhower was president when Ernie Topness began delivering mail in 1957. Sixty-two years later, Ike is long gone, but Topness is still going strong. The Cedar Rapids, IA, letter carrier began his postal career after serving in the Army for two years during the Korean War. Topness is the only USPS employee in Western […]
12/17/2019 RICHMOND, Va. – A Richmond man was sentenced today to 13 months in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for packages believed to contain marijuana that had been sent through the United States mails. According to court documents, Christopher Grant, 59, accepted multiple bribes over a nearly one-year period from several different individuals while […]
12/16/2019 DETROIT (WXYZ) — A visibly distressed postal worker was helped by a neighbor Saturday after she was reportedly followed by several men in a red van while out making deliveries. Ring doorbell video shows the mail carrier looking over her shoulder and shaking as she goes to a nearby front porch in the area […]
12/11/2019 MILWAUKEE — A mailman is in serious condition after he was struck by a hit-and-run driver. The incident happened about 5:45 p.m. Tuesday at South 13th Street and West Euclid Avenue in Milwaukee. A surveillance camera at a nearby business captured the collision on video. It shows the driver hitting the mailman as the […]
12/9/2019 HILLIARD, Fla. — A U.S. Mail letter carrier is recovering after she was attacked by three pit bulls during her route in Hilliard. Lacey Cassidy wears an arm sling with her arm wrapped in a heavy bandage. ” I have never pleaded with an animal in my life,” Lacey Cassidy said. “All I could […]