Police Investigate Mail Theft From

10 Curbside Mailboxes

After finding scores of pieces of mail floating in a pond off Ox Hill Road on December 8, police are investigating its theft from mailboxes at ten residences along five local streets.

The dirt Ox Hill Road links Mt Nebo Road to Hundred Acres Road. The area is in the heart of local horse country.

Police said the mail that they recovered from the pond was stolen by someone from curbside mailboxes positioned near homes on Scudder Road, North Branch Road, Hattertown Road, Aunt Park Lane, and Sugar Hill Road. Mail also may have been stolen from other mailboxes, police said.

The documented theft of mail represents ten individual counts of sixth-degree larceny because the mail was stolen from mailboxes at ten addresses. The mail theft has been referred to US postal inspectors, police said.

The thief or thief apparently drove among the mailboxes and stole their contents in the hope that they would find cash or checks enclosed in holiday greeting cards delivered to those mailboxes, police said.

The recovered mail has been returned to the persons from whom it was stolen, police said.

Police urge that residents not send any cash through the mail, noting that it is jeopardy of being stolen.

Police Patrol Officer Leonard Penna is investigating the mail theft. Police ask anyone with information on the mail theft contact him at the police station at 426-5841.