Residents of a Peachtree City apartment complex will be getting some of their mail a bit late this week, but it’s for a good cause.
A crime ring that specializes in breaking into mailboxes to obtain information for identity theft was thwarted by the Peachtree City Police Department in the wee hours of Feb. 13, according to the administrator of the department’s always-entertaining Facebook page.
The suspects broke into every mailbox in the Camden apartments, the social media post noted. “Unfortunately for the miscreants, Detective Lieff was on the case and had passed on the lookout to our officers, and Delta team was on the lookout.”
Sgt. Isaac and Delta team were on the case at about 4:30 in the morning, and they soon rounded up the suspects — or “nefarious ne’er-do-wells,” as the Facebook writer called them. “The offenders are currently enjoying the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office’s fine facilities.”
With the suspects in jail, the mail has been recovered and now the task is to sort it once again so that each resident can receive his or her correct posts.
“It’s gonna be a minute before we can get all the mail sorted,” the Facebook post acknowledged. “So, the good news is bad people are in jail, and the bad news is your mail may be delayed a bit.”
Sentence them to 10 years in the PTC post office and they will never return to Fayette Co.
This has the be the best and funniest reply. Just yesterday a neighbor and I were talking about how incompetent the PTC PO has become. Both have experienced delays in our mail. Tracking packages seem to be a joke, as they seem to bounce from Atlanta to East Point back to Atl, then to Fairburn, back to Atl, or Palmetto PO, than to ATL, and finally tp PTC. And let’s not get started on the never reopening of the Tyrone PO, after a ‘small counter fire’ has closed that location down for over a year, with no indication of reopening soon.
Isn’t stealing mail a federal crime? I’m sure these guys broke plenty of local and state laws as well, so they may have to answer in numerous jurisdictions.
I have always heard that…
Put then in a locked room with social security recipients that don’t have direct deposit…
If anyone knows the family of these dirt-bags, let them know that their forwarding address for all their mail will be: Fayette County Jail, 145 Johnson Ave, Fayetteville, Ga 30214. This includes junk mail, they deserve all the garbage possible.
Read you on that Skeeter.