On January 23 at about 4:50 pm, officers were dispatched to a robbery in the 1300 block of E Chapman Ave. While officers were responding to the call, a description of a possible suspect vehicle (a black sedan) was provided by USPS workers.
Officers conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle matching the description provided by the reporting party. A USPS crate containing hundreds of pieces of mail inside the vehicle was located during the investigation. All three suspects (Los Angeles residents) were arrested for robbery, mail theft, and assault with a deadly weapon (their vehicle).
Mail theft is a federal crime punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. Investigators with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service have taken up the case. A video on social media was collected as evidence by detectives at the time of the incident. Cellphone footage of the incident posted to Instagram shows thieves in a dark-colored four-door sedan trying to drive out of the post office parking lot in Fullerton as a female postal worker was standing in their way.
The employee from the video sustained minor injuries. Multiple reports have come forward about mail theft from the back of the Chapman branch post office.
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Why, if this is a recurring problem, don’t the feds assign/contract a few armed guards 24/7? Yeah, I know, multiple bids, lotsa red tape…but if started now, we might have something in place by Spring…
Brave act on the part of the postal worker. She ran the risk of much more serious injury. Thank you for your service, whoever you are!
Found out that USPS does have it’s own. armed police. Why aren’t they already on duty in high risk areas? Did Trump appointee Commissioner DeJoy already lay them off??
PD – I agree that firing DeJoy would cure a lot of problems at post office – I don’t understand why that hasn’t already been done. About PO security – years ago I found that the post office doesn’t have adequate surveillance cameras. They could at least do that. But, it appears they still may not have good cameras – based on the cell phone footage use instead of area surveillance cameras.
On a life/death issue I would like it if there was a rule at PO that if robbers come – employees comply if all they are doing is stealing the mail – don’t run after them. She was lucky they didn’t have a gun. I would like her to be around if people were being bullied – her bravery would be needed – but saving the mail is not worth possible loss of her life or any other employees or customers.