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June 01, 2005
Postman arrested for theft when wife unwittingly returns gold
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) - Authorities arrested a U.S. postal employee who allegedly stole two gold bars from a package, only to have his wife unwittingly return the bars to the store that mailed them, court documents showed Friday.
The wife took the bars to the West Indian Creations Jewelry store in the U.S. Virgin Island of St. Thomas, trying to have them made into jewelry, according to a statement by U.S. Postal Inspections officer Richard Santamaria.
The store employees recognized the unique-looking bars because they had accidentally been mixed with another metal and had been bent. The Attleboro, Mass. shop where the bars were to have been sent had called the previous day to report the package had arrived empty.
The employees notified postal inspectors, who set a trap for the woman's husband, Elmo David. The inspectors rigged a box of jewelry with a transmitter that would alert them if it was opened.
David was alone at the Air Mail Facility at Cyril E. King Airport when the transmitter went off Thursday morning, Santamaria said.
Posted by afinta at June 1, 2005 02:30 PM
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