Three people are facing felony grand larceny charges for their alleged involvement in an large-scale mail theft scheme that targeted U.S. Postal Service collection boxes throughout Suffolk County. <\/p>\n
Suffolk County prosecutors say 32-year-old Nicholas Delvillar, of the Bronx, 27-year-old Franklin Mercedes, of the Bronx, and 24-year-old Jhosua Peralta, of Queens, are accused of using a makeshift “fishing” device to steal over 6,750 checks totaling in worth to be $4.8 million. <\/p>\n
Investigators say the trio traveled from the Bronx to Suffolk County on June 3 to steal mail from various collection boxes across Suffolk County.<\/p>\n
They are accused of using device crafted with a sticky glue trap to the end of a belt to extract the mail out of the boxes.<\/p>\n
A search warrant was executed and police allegedly found the thousands of checks, a loaded 9 mm firearm and currency.<\/p>\n
Delvillar and Peralta were arraigned on June 5 on felony grand larceny charges, and Mercedes was arraigned on the same charges on June 10.<\/p>\n
Since the charged are non-bail eligible, they were placed on supervised release with GPS monitoring during the pendency of the case.<\/p>\n
Mail theft for the intent of taking checks and other items of value is an ongoing nationwide problem, prosecutors say.<\/p>\n
Anyone who believes their mail was stolen is asked to call police, as well as the Postal Inspectors at 877-876-2455.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people are facing felony grand larceny charges for their alleged involvement in an large-scale mail theft scheme…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-289527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}