Eagan Post Office Worker Stole Gift Cards: Charges

EAGAN, MN — A United States Postal Service worker has been charged with mail theft after investigators planted a gift card in order to catch a suspect at an Eagan post office.

The 52-year-old suspect from Saint Paul was charged for thefts that allegedly occurred just before Christmas 2014, WCCO reported:

The criminal complaint says the United States Postal Service Special Agent interviewed three Eagan residents who reported sending Target gift cards in the mail in November of 2014 – all of which never made it to their destinations.

The special agent conducted an “integrity test” by putting a $5 Target gift card in a postal collection box in the second week of December in 2014. That card was eventually used at an Inver Grover Heights Target on Dec. 14, 2015, along with other stolen gift cards and a Target RedCard belonging to the defendant.

Read more at WCCO.

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