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Mail Thieves Used 'Bug Traps' To Steal Envelopes In Central Jersey: Police Mail Thieves Used 'Bug Traps' To Steal Envelopes In Central Jersey: Police
Mail Thieves Used 'Bug Traps' To Steal Envelopes In Central Jersey: Police Police in South Brunswick are investigating several cases of mail being stolen by placing.a sticky material into Postal Service mail collection boxes, authorities said. The sticky material appeared to be bug traps, according to South Brunswick police. The most recent thefts occurred on Tuesday, April 12  outside the Dayton and Kendall Park Post Office branches, police said. A resident reported finding mail in the roadway off Broadway Road at around 12 p.m. Officer Gerald Sarno retrieved the mail and located two residents who indicated they had placed their mail in the mailbox in …

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by Jon Craig
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FIERCE STRUGGLE: Postal Carrier Accosted By Package Thief On Downtown Englewood Street FIERCE STRUGGLE: Postal Carrier Accosted By Package Thief On Downtown Englewood Street
Fierce Struggle: Postal Carrier Accosted By Package Thief On Downtown Englewood Street SEE ANYTHING? An Englewood postal carrier escaped serious injury Thursday in a knockdown, broad-daylight struggle with a strong-arm robber now being sought by police. The assailant was so intent on intercepting a particular package that he apparently staked out the local postal annex earlier in the day and then took cellphone photos of the contents of the carrier's truck while it was parked outside a downtown residential/commercial building on West Palisade Avenue. An employee at the Towne Centre at Englewood alerted the carrier to the stranger, Police Lt. Fred Pulice said. "Can I help you…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Serial Bergen Mailbox Fisher Caught, Again, On Jersey Shore: Report Serial Bergen Mailbox Fisher Caught, Again, On Jersey Shore: Report
Serial Bergen Mailbox Fisher Caught, Again, On Jersey Shore: Report Police in Monmouth County caught a pair of men stealing mail -- one of whom has had other New Jersey run-ins with the postal service. Ricky Javier, of Hackensack, and Kaseem Kid, of Lyndhurst, were busted taking mail right out of dropboxes in Ocean township, News12 reports. They were found with several pieces of mail inside their vehicle and a glue-like substance on them, the outlet said. Both were charged with burglary and theft. Police recovered mail from other municipal mailboxes including Middletown and Atlantic Highlands, News12 says. Police reportedly found the sam…

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by Jon Craig