Washington DC post office worker robbed at gunpoint while making deliveries

A U.S. Postal Service mail service was robbed at gunpoint this week whereas delivering mail in Washington, D.C., police stated. 

The gunman approached the service on Monday and pointed the weapon on the proper aspect of his neck after which his ribcage, in response to a Metropolitan Police Division report obtained by Fox Information. 

The suspect advised the sufferer to provide him his keys. He stated “give it [keys] to me and get out,” in response to the report. 

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The mail service complied and advised police he noticed the suspect flee in an unknown course. The sufferer left the realm and referred to as his supervisor and police, authorities stated. 

He was not injured. Fox Information has reached out to the Postal Service. 

Mail carriers in Washington and Maryland have been focused in current weeks. Over a two-day interval in the course of the summer season, there have been at the very least six armed robberies towards carriers.

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“This alarming pattern must cease,” U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) spokesman Michael Martel stated at a press convention in July. “It’s a unhappy state of issues when it comes right down to robberies towards somebody that gives an important service to our communities. Nevertheless it’s taking place right here, and it’s acquired to finish.”