{"id":421379,"date":"2026-10-07T17:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T17:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/421379\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T17:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T17:46:07","slug":"mail-carrier-arrested-for-dui-in-postal-service-vehicle-fort-lauderdale-police-say-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/421379\/","title":{"rendered":"Mail carrier arrested for DUI in Postal Service vehicle, Fort Lauderdale Police say \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mail carrier was arrested for driving under the influence while driving a U.S. Postal Service vehicle in Fort Lauderdale, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Lauderdale Police officials said officers had responded to the 700 block of Northeast 17th Court around 8 p.m. Tuesday after a caller reported a marked USPS vehicle stopped in the roadway with the driver inside.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrived and found the driver, 32-year-old Eliezer Valcourt, who appeared to be intoxicated, police said.<\/p>\n<p>A DUI officer responded and after further investigation, Valcourt was arrested on DUI charges and booked into jail, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>NBC6 has reached out to the Postal Service for a statement and was waiting to hear back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mail carrier was arrested for driving under the influence while driving a U.S. Postal Service vehicle in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-421379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}