Posts Tagged ‘mail theft news’

Juvenile Arrested In East Hartford Mail Thefts The Hartford Courant – 7/8/10 (EAST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT) “Police arrested a juvenile male in an ongoing investigation into a rash of mail thefts in town. About six residents have had mail stolen, East Hartford Police Officer Hugo Benettieri said. The thefts were near Burnham Street in the north…

Mail theft in Maple Leaf The Maple Leafer – 7/15/10 (SEATTLE, WASHINGTON) “Anyone else in Maple Leaf having a problem with mail theft? I remember at a Maple Leaf Community Council meeting earlier this year, this issue was brought up — but I thought I had heard they caught the main culprit. Either they didn’t,…

Mailbox tampering hits Hunts Point Bellevue Reporter – 7/23/10 (BELLEVUE, WASHINGTON) “A total of 10 mailboxes were pried open by an unknown person(s) in the 4200 block and north of Hunts Point Road in July. Although the boxes were tampered with, there have been no reports of anything taken. The tampering occurred between 10 p.m.…

Thief Stealing Mail, Identities in Chesterfield FOX 2 – 10/1/10 (CHESTERFIELD, MISSOURI) Crimestoppers: Credit Card Theft KFSM 5 – 9/30/10 (FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS) “Fort Smith police are looking for this man accused of stealing a credit card. On September 7, 2010, a Fort Smith resident reported a credit card mailed to him from a banking…

Stolen mail leads to identity theft across the nation. In June, Washington and Georgia seemed to be hit by mail thieves particularly hard, and of course California (per norm) as well. Other areas like South Carolina and parts of the MidWest are seeing rashes of mail theft as well.

If you learn one thing from our monthly round-up of mail-identity theft news stories nationwide, it should be this: Don’t trust your mailbox! Stealing mail is one of the easiest and most common ways thieves obtain your sensitive information for identity theft. Most people don’t even realize when their mail has been stolen, because savvy…

We are thinking we will make “Mail Theft Monday” a regular posting, now that we have oodles of mail theft to report on, thanks to a new Google News Alert for “stolen mail”. So without further ado, here’s the latest and greatest in the world of mail-identity theft. Two Horry County residents sentenced in federal…

Mesa man arrested on dozens of credit card thefts, fraud AZ Central – 11/12/09 (MESA, ARIZONA) “Police recovered enough stolen property to fill a U-Haul truck after they served a search warrant on a Mesa man who was arrested in October while on bail for a forgery charge, police said. Christopher R. Cage was arrested…

Editor’s Note: This edition of Mail Theft Monday is one week late. Blame it on the Holidays 🙂 Here’s the last November edition of “Mail Theft Monday“… During these busy Holidays, none of us really have the time for close reading, so I’m trying a new strategy: I’m going to put in bold what I…

Editor’s Note: Emphases added. Routine traffic stop turns into mail theft case Daily Democrat – 12/3/09 (WOODLAND, CALIFORNIA) “An otherwise routine vehicle stop led to the arrest of a Woodland man who now stands accused of mail theft – a federal crime. Sgt. Bret Hancock reported the incident Wednesday morning. He said the initial traffic…