ORLANDO, Fla. —A man arrested in October and charged with stealing and discarding more than 1,000 pieces of mail has agreed to a plea deal to avoid trial.
Ottis McCoy Jr. will formally enter the plea in U.S. Middle District Court in Orlando next Wednesday.
Mark Solomon talked with and provided a cell phone video to WESH 2 investigates last October, showing the mail on Oct. 22 scattered in the woods at the end of a street in the Waterford Trails community of east Orange County.
“You could also see a handful of letters in the trees further up,” Solomon said.
One piece of mail was a ballot just weeks before election day. It’s unknown whether the voter who never received it obtained a replacement or voted in person.
