{"id":5575,"date":"2023-04-21T18:01:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T18:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci02bd584f4005279b"},"modified":"2023-04-21T18:01:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T18:01:20","slug":"postal-service-employee-arrested-for-mail-theft-accused-of-stealing-9mm-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/2023\/04\/21\/postal-service-employee-arrested-for-mail-theft-accused-of-stealing-9mm-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"POSTAL SERVICE EMPLOYEE ARRESTED FOR MAIL THEFT, ACCUSED OF STEALING 9MM GUN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A United States Postal Service employee identified as Demarkis Houston, 30, was arrested on April 20, 2023 accused of stealing and destroying mail in Charlotte, NC.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/mail-img_04811.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to allegations in the indictment, on August 31, 2022, Demarkis is accused of unlawfully opening and destroying mail while he was on duty delivering mail.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment also alleges that on September 19, 2022, Demarkis removed a 9mm gun from the mail. The gun was on the way to a customer. <\/p>\n<p>Demarkis was arrested after an internal investigation. He appeared in federal court on mail theft and related charges on April 21, 2023. <\/p>\n<p>Demarkis is charged with mail destruction, theft of mail by a Postal Service employee, and possession of a stolen firearm.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 9mm gun was packaged to be delivered to a client, this mail man is accused of stealing the gun before it reached the mailbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[717,295,26,208,260,261,257,713,256,254,255],"class_list":["post-5575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-amazon","tag-federal","tag-guns","tag-jail","tag-mail","tag-mail-carrier","tag-mail-man","tag-packages","tag-steal","tag-us-mail","tag-usps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}