A Reading man has been charged with robbing two mail carriers of packages just minutes apart last month.<\/p>\n
Following an investigation in which police viewed footage from a multitude of city- and privately owned cameras covering a wide swath of the city, Criminal Investigator Joshua Sheller on Wednesday charged Luis Martinez-Ozoria, 27, with multiple counts each of robbery and theft by unlawful taking in the Feb. 9 incidents.<\/p>\n
Martinez-Ozoria was free on $25,000 bail to await a hearing following arraignment Thursday night before District Judge Priscilla Campos in Reading Central Court.<\/p>\n
According to court records:<\/p>\n
On Feb. 9 shortly before 11 a.m., police were dispatched to Mulberry and Greenwich streets after a mail carrier reported he was robbed of a package.<\/p>\n
The carrier said he had parked the mail vehicle in the 500 block of Mulberry. While removing parcels from the trunk and placing them in his satchel, a black Acura sedan with no visible license plate numbers pulled next to the truck.<\/p>\n
A male wearing a ski mask got out of the car, approached the carrier and grabbed a package out of his satchel. The male fled with the package and was last seen in the 1000 block of Greenwich, heading toward North 10th Street.<\/p>\n
While speaking with the victim, the officer learned of an attempted robbery of a mail carrier shortly before the Mulberry street robbery.<\/p>\n
That carrier said he had parked his work vehicle in the 700 block of North 10th to deliver mail in that block. He was removing parcels from the trunk when a black Acura TLX double-parked in front of his vehicle.<\/p>\n
The male got out and approached him, then reached into the trunk and grabbed a package.<\/p>\n
The carrier yelled, \u201cNo!\u201d and grabbed the package from him. The would-be robber ran back to the Acura and fled south on North Eighth.<\/p>\n
The carrier was able to take a picture of the rear of the Acura as it was driven away. The photo showed that the license plate had been bent in half to prevent a normal view of the plate numbers.<\/p>\n
However, since the numbers are indented, they could still be discerned.<\/p>\n
Police learned the car was registered to Martinez-Ozoria of the 500 block of Pearl Street. They found the car in the lot of the apartment complex where he resides.<\/p>\n
The vehicle was impounded.<\/p>\n
Police secured footage from private businesses to augment footage from city police-mounted cameras.<\/p>\n
In several of the video clips, the suspect is seen wearing a bright orange jacket.<\/p>\n
Footage from the apartment complex where Martinez-Ozoria resides in the day leading up to the robbery shows he is the only person driving the Acura to and from the parking lot. He is also seen wearing a bright orange jacket during most of these trips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Reading man has been charged with robbing two mail carriers of packages just minutes apart last month.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,202,182,139,28,736,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-137640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}