A U.S. Postal Service employee threatened to kill his manager who asked for a doctor’s note after multiple absences, police said.
At about 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Quiana Harris called John Lepka regarding the need for the note.
Lepka, an employee at the post office on Stafford Avenue in Scranton, began making threats against James Loughney, another manager, while on the phone with Harris.
Lepka said Loughney couldn’t interfere with “my kids or my money.”
Harris told officers that Lepka said he was coming to the post office in two hours to kill Loughney. Lepka told Harris he was “packing,” indicating he possessed a firearm.
Officers speaking with Loughney noted that he was extremely upset.
Loughney was able to track Lepka in his Postal Service truck and determined he was at the post office in Taylor.
And what happened
Lepka said he was only kidding, and that his words were taken out of context. He added, with everything going on in the world, I thinking kidding is very much needed, y’all need to chill.
Lepka said he was coming to the post office in two hours to kill Loughney. How do you take THAT out of context?
But when the USPS managers threaten employees it never makes the news. How odd.
Exactly!
Just goes to show you how stressful working at the post office really is.