Man charged with mail thefts in Chicago area going back three years
A man has been charged with multiple acts of mail theft and burglary in the Chicago area dating back up to three years.
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A man has been charged with multiple acts of mail theft and burglary in the Chicago area dating back up to three years.
Two men were charged after a mail theft was reported at an apartment building in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood on Monday.
The U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced Tuesday that it was offering a reward of $100,000 for information leading to the arrest of each of three accomplices in numerous mail thefts in Chicago.
Mone't Austin said she knew something was up when she didn't get a government check for $1,000 in the mail.
A Chicago man has been sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to burglary charges stemming from multiple mail thefts on the Northwest Side.
Joshua Walder, 24, was arrested on Aug. 26, as a result of a joint investigation by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Chicago Police Department.
The service said the alleged suspect targeted multiple buildings in the West Loop and Fulton Market neighborhoods.
Despite the residents’ best efforts to protect themselves, thieves keep coming into buildings with postal keys and stealing. Jermont Terry reports.
A man has been charged in a string of nearly a dozen burglaries and mail thefts in downtown Chicago and on the North Side since September 2024.
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Dylan Smith, 35, pleaded guilty to using a postal service key to steal mail from a condo building's panel mailbox.
Donald Hill, 35, was arrested on Thursday, March 20, in the 6900 block of West Belmont Avenue.
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Police had only vague descriptions of the thieves, who were both wearing hoodies and masks.
According to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, mail theft complaints have soared 327% since 2018. CBS Consumer Correspondent Ash-har Quraishi reports that the USPS has known about this for decades.
The USPIS said the man has been entering corporate and residential buildings around downtown Chicago since December.
U.S. postal inspectors said Jonathan Minter, 37, was spotted on surveillance video using what appears to be a postal master key to open up an entire set of mailboxes in a building.
Jonathan Minter was identified as the suspect responsible for numerous apartment and condo building mail thefts between 2022 and 2024.
Chicago Police say the man was suspected of stealing mail.
The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a suspect accused of stealing letters from mailboxes.
Kalea Blanke faces burglary and identity theft charges for mail thefts at Chicago condos and apartments dating back to 2021.
The woman is accused of using postal keys – and stealing countless pieces of mail for years. She is even accused of stealing one person’s identity. CBS 2's Jermont Terry reports.
"They must be desperate to be doing something like that, so my heart really goes out to them."
The man can be seen early Friday morning methodically checking each of the six mail slots and taking out the mail before closing it back up.
Protecting the mail is the U.S. Postal Inspectors' (USPIS) job. The agency's data shows it hasn't made a dent in investigating or arresting those accused of mail theft in the past few years. CBS 2's Sabrina Franza reports.
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