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A Florida man has been arrested for brandishing a gun and shouting racist slurs at a Black homeowner, in a June 14 incident caught on video. According to a report by WSVN, 58-year-old Joseph Fucheck accused Dwayne Wynn of stealing from his own mailbox. Authorities have charged him with aggravated assault with a firearm with prejudice, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, but prosecutors are also investigating this as a hate crime. Fucheck reportedly pulled up to Wynn's home in a red Jeep and put something into his mailbox, while Wynn was standing across the street speaking...

A Kansas letter carrier was unable to carry out some of those Postal Service duties on Friday, after finding a snake on someone’s mailbox, police said. The scaly creature was found wrapped around the wall-mounted mailbox and railing outside a resident’s home, the Overland Park Police said on Twitter. The red tail boa constrictor, which appeared on Broadmoor Street, is believed to have broken free from a neighboring home, police told The Kansas City Star. Once discovered, the carrier called for help from animal control, police said.

ARVADA, Colo. (CBS4) – A man has been charged in connection with a Postal Service mailbox that was destroyed by a pipe bomb in Arvada last week. According to the arrest affidavit, John Henry Bowman, 45, admitted to blowing up a mailbox located in a parking lot on the 9500 block of Ralston Road with a pipe bomb.Arvada police said just before 2:30 a.m. on April 21 several people called about a suspicious noise. Police responded but were unable to determine what the calls were about because they came from several different areas.At 7 a.m. another person called police...

ST. CLOUD, Fla. - Several residents in Osceola County have found catfish in their mailboxes and yards, prompting questions whether it's a prank or something more serious. Maddison Fertic said she received an unusual delivery Monday morning when her postman discovered a large, dead catfish inside her mailbox. "I was honestly in shock because it doesn't make any sense," Fertic said. "It's just one of those things where it's, just, 'Why?'" Fertic said the fish was 12 inches long, and she had to use a stick to pull it out. "It looked like it could have been a live fish...

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Tips helped Charleston Police track down a juvenile suspect in connection to a mailbox explosion that was posted on YouTube. According to Charleston Police Detectives, the teenager is facing a charge of criminal use of a destructive device. A neighbor on Louden Heights Road, located in the South Hills area of Charleston, captured the incident on home security video during the weekend .

To say Roger Buchko supports gun rights would be an understatement. Just ask his letter carrier.Buchko, 49, of Lopatcong Township, made a giant mailbox in the shape of a .44 Magnum revolver that has been drawing attention and turning heads in his northwestern New Jersey community.

Lazy postal worker burns, buries undelivered mail BELFAIR, WA (KOMO/CNN) - A disgraced mailman is in trouble again after admitting to burying thousands of pieces of mail in his backyard. Postal investigators state mailman Richard Farrell is accused of using a backhoe and burying the undelivered mail in a deep trench. "Just because I was lazy, and I became a not very good employee," said Farrell. "I just wanted to get out of their as soon as possible." According to court documents, in 2010, fellow coworkers discovered Farrell dumping mail in a recycling bin. Those actions prompted investigators to follow...

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They are icons of the American mail service, but they may be about to go the way of the Pony Express. In villages, towns and cities across America, residents are waking up to find the familiar blue mailbox at the end of the road is gone. In the past 20 years, more than half of America's mailboxes have been taken out of service, leaving just 175,000 nationwide. It may make commercial sense, but it has dismayed letter-writing aficionados. "Mailboxes are like phone booths, that part of the scenery that you take for granted until one day you need one and...

OTISFIELD, Maine, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Officials in Otisfield now say residents get to keep the small Maine town's sole mailbox after the U.S. Postal Service had announced it would be removed. The officials said they have struck a deal to allow the town, which does not have a post office, to keep the only mailbox available to residents, WMTW-TV, Auburn, Maine, reported Thursday. The decision made last month to remove the box triggered multiple complaints from residents. One woman threatened to chain herself to the mailbox to keep it from being removed. The Postal Service initially said the box...

Flyers being left in Mailboxes...

Police are seeking an 18-year-old Howell man believed to have been injured when a mortar exploded in a pickup truck as he and a friend allegedly blew up mailboxes early Monday morning in Howell Township. The friend, Matthew Robert Gow, 18, of Howell, who is believed to be the driver, was arraigned Monday afternoon before Livingston County District Judge A. John Pikkarainen on a charge of using an explosive device to destroy property. Gow remains in the Livingston County Jail in lieu of $10,000 cash or surety bond. (snip) Upon arrival, deputies located what they believed to be a detonated...

<p>CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) --  The man accused of planting pipe bombs in mailboxes in five states will use an insanity defense when he goes on trial Nov. 18, court papers show.</p> <p>Jane Kelly, the lawyer for Luke Helder, filed a notice of such a defense with the court on Friday and notified the judge of her intent to use expert witnesses to testify to Helder's mental condition.</p>

Mailbox Package Explodes in Philly PHILADELPHIA- Federal agencies were investigating the origin of a mailbox package that exploded while being defused by a bomb squad after a mail carrier became alarmed by an attached note. "He saw a package. He didn't like the looks of it, he didn't like the writing on it," FBI spokeswoman Linda Vizi said. Bystanders Maria Gonzalez and Joe Johnson said the mail carrier told them the note said "Free Palestine" and mentioned al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden's terrorist network. A police official who spoke on the condition of anonymity confirmed that account. The carrier didn't handle...

Just heard on ABC radio news: Mail Box Bomber was drawing a smiley face on US.

The Badger Herald received a letter from pipe bomb suspect and UW-Stout junior Luke John Helder postmarked Omaha, Neb., Friday, May 3, 2002. The Herald turned the letter over to the FBI Tuesday afternoon. Click here to see text of letter. Click here to see the actual letter. The FBI took Helder into custody at 6:55 p.m. CST about 90 miles northeast of Reno for his connection with recent pipe bombings in mailboxes throughout the rural Midwest. Police surrounded him in Nevada at 6 p.m. Tuesday before arresting him after he dropped a gun out of his car window. At...

<p>AMARILLO, Texas (AP) --  The FBI said Tuesday it was searching for a 21-year-old college student in connection with a wave of pipe bombs found in rural mailboxes.</p> <p>Luke John Helder was seen driving a black or gray Honda Accord with Minnesota license plates, investigators said. Helder turned 21 on Sunday, according to a check of public records.</p>

All postal workers are being called in to their stations in Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois. If people see a mailman still delivering mail they are supposed to tell them to return to their post office. More to follow.