Posts Tagged ‘mail theft news’

KTKA News reports mail theft on the rise, puts you at risk for ID theft In Topeka, Kansas, mail theft is on the rise. Mail carriers are seeing a trend. Terry Cook, Postal Service Supervisor, explains “[Mail theives] are out there going through the mailboxes, taking what they want and dropping it off at other…

Followed postal carriers and stole government checks from mailboxes Earlier this year in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced a 41 year old to three years in prison for receiving stolen property and aggregated identity theft in connection with stealing government checks from mailboxes and cashing the checks using fraudulent identity…

Will serve 4 years for mail fraud and aggravated identity theft On Sept 24, 2008, US District Judge Robert Holmes Bell sentenced a 29 year old illegal alien and former resident of NYC to four years in federal prison for conspiring to commit identity theft, mail fraud and aggravited identity theft. Agents of the United…

Animation illustrates national epidemic of mail theft & identity theft This YouTube video shows the increase in mail and identity theft nation wide over the past few years. As you can see, mail theft and identity theft is a massive problem of a national scale that is growing at an alarming rate. Criminals steal your…

Wheat Ridge Police Department warns residents “Mail and identity theft a growing and difficult problem” Mail and identity theft is a problem of epidemic proportions that plagues cities, suburbs, and small towns alike. Even the pristine Wheat Ridge, Colorado (“Deep Roots, Short Commutes”) is not immune, and the authorities are taking notice. The Wheat Ridge…

West Seattle Blog publishes Mail-Theft Alert The West Seattle Blog is a weblog for the community of West Seattle Washington, and includes valuable resources and information on events, traffic, and crime, among other topics. Recently, the WSB published a post on mail theft that caught my attention. The editors at WSB reprinted an e-mail from…

Even Hollywood Hills not immune to mail identity thieves LAist, “a website about Los Angeles,” recently published a report of “Mail Theft in the Hills” warning residents to lock their mailboxes. Watch those mailboxes, people are stealing. Reported by a representative of City Councilman Jack Weiss last night at a Sherman Oaks Neighborhood Council meeting, homes…