BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. – An EMS rig is designed to transport people, not a United States Postal Service mail collection box.
Ryan Baugh and Jacob Sandrock are accused of stealing a USPS collection box in Oakland County on April 29, 2024, near an office building on South Telegraph Road north of West Square Lake Road.
In the criminal complaint filed Tuesday (July 16) in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, the Bloomfield Hills Postmaster reported the collection box was missing on April 30.
The complaint says that on May 2, a postal technician received a call from an individual, later identified as Baugh, asking if he could keep the collection box that he found next to a dumpster.
According to the complaint, Baugh wanted to use it for personal or decorative purposes. The technician responded by saying, “No.”
Later that day, a STAR EMS manager called the postal technician and said he didn’t believe his employees took the collection box but were instead told by the Postal Inspection Service that they could keep it.
“The ambulance’s in-vehicle video camera showed Sandrock and Baugh using a STAR EMS stretcher to load the collection box into the back of an ambulance,” the complaint states.