BALTIMORE — Mail theft continues to be a problem. Thieves are targeting collection boxes, doorsteps, even postal workers – assaulting and robbing them of arrow keys used to open communal mailboxes.
Most recently though, WMAR-2 News Mallory Sofastaii received a complaint about an alleged internal mail theft incident.
Tom Karle had been waiting several months for a check in the mail.
“And I reached out to Bay Vanguard Bank asking about my payment and they said that they had already mailed me the check. And I said, I haven’t received the check. They’re like, well, you definitely cashed it,” Karle said.
He then received a copy of the cleared check for $3,175.
“Somebody wrote out my name, Tom Karle, signed my name, and then wrote ‘pay to the order of Ladonna Kelly.’ And then she signed her name, and then deposited it into her personal checking account.
“Do you know Ladonna Kelly?” Sofastaii asked Karle.
“I didn’t know her when it occurred, but after doing research, Googling, back searching, I found out that she was the postal carrier for this street,” Karle replied.
As soon as he found out, he contacted USPS through their website on December 23.