A suspect is still on the loose after police said he robbed a USPS mail carrier.The United State Postal Inspection Service is offering a big reward if anyone knows information. Police said the mail carrier was robbed at gunpoint and the suspect took a special set of keys.The keys can open lots of mailboxes.”That’s a federal offense, you robbed a mailman, who does that?” said Kelly Baker, resident.Baker said she lives at the apartment complex where a mail carrier was robbed back on April 7. “There was a bunch of police officers coming through the complex looking for somebody,” Baker said.Since then, she said she hasn’t gotten any mail to her box and her neighbors are in the same boat.”No one has gotten mail there, no one. Unless there’s a package delivered to your door, and that’s not even guaranteed to get there,” Baker said.KOCO 5 checked in the postal service, and they said that’s true: mail has been curtailed to those boxes at the complex. Tenants can stop by their local post office and show their ID to get their mail. OKC police told KOCO 5 that the suspect didn’t take any mail with him when he approached the carrier.”In the midst of delivering mail, the suspect came around the corner with a handgun and pointed it at the victim, and demanded his keys,” said Valerie Littlejohn, OCPD.The police report said one of those keys is universal to all OKC mailboxes where USPS delivers mail.”The federal agents were called out to the scene as well, as far as the keys being stolen,” Littlejohn said.KOCO 5 was told there was also a silver Dodge Challenger that was the getaway car, and the suspect did not act alone.”It’s believed that there was another suspect in the car, because when he left, he got into the passenger side of the vehicle, so it appears there’s a driver as well,” Littlejohn said.So far, no arrests have been made in the case and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service is offering up to $50,000 for any information that leads to an arrest and conviction of the suspect.
A suspect is still on the loose after police said he robbed a USPS mail carrier.
The United State Postal Inspection Service is offering a big reward if anyone knows information. Police said the mail carrier was robbed at gunpoint and the suspect took a special set of keys.
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The keys can open lots of mailboxes.
“That’s a federal offense, you robbed a mailman, who does that?” said Kelly Baker, resident.
Baker said she lives at the apartment complex where a mail carrier was robbed back on April 7.
“There was a bunch of police officers coming through the complex looking for somebody,” Baker said.
Since then, she said she hasn’t gotten any mail to her box and her neighbors are in the same boat.
“No one has gotten mail there, no one. Unless there’s a package delivered to your door, and that’s not even guaranteed to get there,” Baker said.
KOCO 5 checked in the postal service, and they said that’s true: mail has been curtailed to those boxes at the complex. Tenants can stop by their local post office and show their ID to get their mail.
OKC police told KOCO 5 that the suspect didn’t take any mail with him when he approached the carrier.
“In the midst of delivering mail, the suspect came around the corner with a handgun and pointed it at the victim, and demanded his keys,” said Valerie Littlejohn, OCPD.
The police report said one of those keys is universal to all OKC mailboxes where USPS delivers mail.
“The federal agents were called out to the scene as well, as far as the keys being stolen,” Littlejohn said.
KOCO 5 was told there was also a silver Dodge Challenger that was the getaway car, and the suspect did not act alone.
“It’s believed that there was another suspect in the car, because when he left, he got into the passenger side of the vehicle, so it appears there’s a driver as well,” Littlejohn said.
So far, no arrests have been made in the case and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service is offering up to $50,000 for any information that leads to an arrest and conviction of the suspect.