![]() ![]() Suspected mail thieves appear in court for the 3rd time in a week.Police chase leads to 3 arrests for mail and check thefts.5 accused of participating in Tri-State mail theft ring.There have been a number of postal workers robbed in the Tri-State area.Ĭriminals are after master keys for the blue postal boxes, in order to steal mail and get ahold of checks. This article was originally posted by MyNorthwest.CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The US Postal Service has announced major changes to protect letter carriers and prevent mail theft. US Postal Inspector John Wiegand told KIRO Newsradio his office is actively investigating these mail thefts, which he said is on the rise, but when asked about what steps the inspection service is taking, he could not comment.Īt the time of publication, no arrests have been reported in the Wedgwood, Marysville, or Eastlake incidents. While Columbia City community members were told in May delivery was temporarily suspended to the 98118 zip code while that master key was lost, mail-in Marysville has continued to be delivered but with reportedly few solutions communicated from the post office. Other impacted residents across the region have expressed similar concerns about the ongoing status of their mail. KIRO Newsradio asked postal inspectors about the status of their mail and is awaiting details. “My understanding is, from talking to, is that it is going to be a while until this gets fixed because there is only one person that does these repairs to the boxes,” McCarthy said. Nearly two weeks later, the mailbox is still broken, unable to securely store parcels for dozens of residents. McCarty said that since thieves broke into his development’s group box, he hasn’t heard anything from the post office, but he is talking with his carrier. They report it happened on August 5, but it’s unclear if a police report was filed and a postal inspector for the Seattle area wasn’t immediately aware of details. I mean, they did it in the middle of the afternoon, around three or four o’clock.” “Somebody is very smart about how they’re doing illegal business. “It seems like an epidemic,” Mark McCarthy, an Eastlake resident, said. Residents on Franklin Avenue say their townhomes’ mail has been compromised after thieves allegedly pulled up in a grey minivan and forced open their group box. Mail theft is also hitting Seattle’s Eastlake neighborhood, just one block from the KIRO Newsradio studios. It’s not clear which zip codes in Northeast Seattle are now affected. MPD has warned residents in the 9821 zip codes their mail could be at risk. In Marysville, residents told KIRO Newsradio they received little correspondence from the post office about what happened, but one had noticed one of the “key grabbers” the investigators were reportedly using to capture the stolen master keys, which the city said have been replicated with a 3D printer. It remains unknown how many homes have been impacted there – or in South Seattle, where federal officials are charging a man with using a stolen master key last May to break into multiple apartment complexes and other boxes. Marysville police said that the thieves are using them to target collection boxes and group mailboxes that serve multiple homes. ![]()
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