Maryland USPS worker robbed at knife-point in front of a $3 million home: police

A US postal employee in Maryland was robbed at knife-point in entrance of a $3 million house earlier this week, police mentioned.

Montgomery County Law enforcement officials had been known as to an upscale neighborhood simply northwest of the Washington, DC. space on Tuesday afternoon, the place they mentioned a male suspect in his 20s used a knife to rob a postal employee of his private belongings, WJLA-TV reported.

Officers from the US Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) additionally responded to analyze.

Authorities mentioned the suspect didn’t steal any mail or USPS property and later fled the scene in a grey sedan.

Suzan Murray, a resident within the neighborhood the place the theft passed off, described the suspect as “fairly brazen” as lots of the properties have safety cameras and a police power “shut by,” WJLA reported.

She additionally mentioned this was not the primary time a mail supply service employee was robbed within the neighborhood.

“There’s a number of us within the neighborhood who’ve gotten caught up within the theft of letters,” Murray mentioned, per the report. “There are neighbors of ours who’ve had checks stolen within the tens of 1000’s.”

Murray mentioned she has been personally affected by the robberies, having had checks totaling $7,000 stolen from her.

“We misplaced a examine. I advised my neighbor and she or he mentioned, ‘no matter you do, you shouldn’t use that blue mailbox,’” Murray advised the outlet. “And I mentioned, ‘ahh I missed that memo.’ And I advised my husband, and some weeks later, he put a examine within the blue mailbox, and that one was stolen, and I used to be like, ‘I advised you not that blue mailbox!”

Recovering the cash has been tough, she mentioned.

“So, you go to the publish workplace they usually say, ‘go to the police station.’ And you then go to the police station they usually say, ‘no that’s not us, go to the financial institution.’ We go to PNC Financial institution — they’re a neighborhood financial institution — they usually labored actually onerous to get us the cash again as rapidly as they may, however [it still] took months and it was actually, actually irritating,” she mentioned, WJLA reported.

Final month, USPIS introduced six robberies of postal service mail carriers in and across the Washington, D.C. and Maryland areas.

“This alarming pattern must cease,” USPIS spokesman Michael Martel mentioned at a press convention forward of the July 4th weekend. “It’s a unhappy state of issues when it comes all the way down to robberies towards somebody that gives an important service to our communities. Nevertheless it’s occurring right here, and it’s obtained to finish.”

All six robberies occurred at gunpoint and in two of the instances the postal employee was hit within the face or head. Neither was hospitalized and solely sustained minor accidents.

The robberies passed off in Wheaton, Columbia, and Takoma Park, Maryland, and in areas northwest and northeast of Washington, D.C.