YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — An indictment unsealed in federal court Thursday charges a city man with robbing a postal worker, taking a postal key and taking a postal vehicle.
Joseph Grove, 36, faces charges of robbery or theft of mail or property of the United States; theft of a postal key; mail theft; and bank fraud.
The indictment in the U.S. Northern District Court of Ohio was issued Tuesday.
Grove is in the Mahoning County jail on unrelated charges. He is expected to be arraigned Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Carmen E. Henderson.
The indictment in the case accuses Grove of robbing a postal worker March 13 and taking a key the postal worker carried. He is also charged with possessing an article of mail April 9 as well as trying to cash a stolen check the same day at a local bank.
The March 13 robbery took place on Hilton Avenue on the South Side, where the victim told police a man told him, “Don’t die for a key, bro,” showed a gun in his waist, and forced the mail carrier to give him his “arrow key.”
The arrow key is a type of key that allows letter carriers access to different types of boxes or containers that hold mail.
