'Mail Rat' Lives In Nest Of Letters Stolen From Brooklyn Home, Reports Say

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, BROOKLYN — A Brooklyn rat committed a federal crime and will pay for it with its life, according to reports.

“Mail Rat,” age and gender unknown, was found in a nest of his own loot — a Bed-Stuy woman’s missing mail — by Northeastern Exterminating employee James Molluso on July 13, the Brooklyn Paper reported Monday.

Molluso discovered the den of sin underneath the victim’s home on Halsey Street near Bedford Avenue, he said.

The rat had been snatching the woman’s mail — which the postal worker had left on her stairway landing — and dragging it into the basement for the past two months, Molluso told Gothamist.

"The mailman was throwing mail by the front door," Molluso said. "The rat would pull the mail into a little spot to use as nesting material."

The epistolary nest contained about 35 bills and letters, said Molluso, who both uncovered the crime and delivered the criminal’s sentence — death by bait trap, according to reports.

“It wasn’t a surprise to me,” Molluso told the Brooklyn Paper, adding that he's seen rat nests made out of baby toys and pill bottles. “Generally, its pretty much anything they can find.”

Northeastern Exterminating did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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