Delivered to philadelphia residents. Instead federal Authorities Say a postal worker kept the letters in his car and garage. Good evening im ukee washington. Im jessica dean. All of the mail in question was addressed to homes and businesses in the tacony section of northeast philadelphia. Our nat is a brown is live in University City with the details of this federal investigation. Good evening natasha. Reporter well, good evening to you both. You know this male carrier could now face jail time in light of these allegations. Meantime for those living in parts of northeast philadelphia, they say theyre outraged that someone could have treated their male so recklessly. For folks living here within the 19135 zip code in tacony thousands of pieces of mail may have never made night their mailboxes from may 29th 2014 to january 21st 2015 federal investigators say 48yearold mail carrier patrick dam bros see yo obstructed the passage much more than 22,500 pieces of mail. Thats a lot of mail. Th
Now face jail time in light of these allegations. Meantime for those living in parts of northeast philadelphia, they say theyre outraged that someone could have treated their male so recklessly. For folks living here within the 19135 zip code in tacony thousands of pieces of mail may have never made night their mailboxes from may 29th 2014 to january 21st 2015 federal investigators say 48yearold mail carrier patrick dam bros see yo obstructed the passage much more than 22,500 pieces of mail. Thats a lot of mail. That is a lot of mail. Had no idea this was going on and the zip code. Prosecutors say mail was allegedly found in his car and in trash bags in the garage of his northeast philadelphia home. Male that allegedly includeed more than 7,101st class letters. More than 200 certified letters. More than 11,000 standard letters. Five treasury checks. Hundreds of pieces of political male and periodicals and more than 2500 nonprofit letters. We found no one at his home when we tried to re
Striking the suspect. The officer was saved by his body armor and garshard died in the shootout. He was being hunted down for a shot this killed megan doto, she and her baby died. This is the second time this officer was shot in the line of duty he was tracking down an s p when the suspect fired through a wall, today the officer was shot in the stomach and was saved by his s. W. A. T. Armor. Residents here are glad nobody else got shot. Its scary when it happens where you live but you need a sense of calmness, and the cops reacted quickly and it did not get out of hand. The officer is a 17 year veteran of the department and he has a wife and children and they have not released his name to the public before determining if he and his family is safe. Thank you david. Lets switch live to vernon odom at Police Headquarters you covered the situation in september when devon shot and killed megan doto. His mugshot was regularly appearing on i95 billboards and now that murder case is solved acc
Took crews everything they had to stop that fire. Reporter the crews are going through their air tanks like crazy. Four of them in a row, all the way out to the freeway. All of them got out safely, but one resident got her feet singed. It was kind of scary. All the smoke was making it hard to breathe a little bit. All of these people were running out, crying. Reporter it was a chaotic scene, as fire crews rushed in. The call was for a wildlands fire, but a handful of homes were already burning. Fortunately, no fears of anyone trapped. They were evacuating people as we were pulling up. We got Information Way early on, that all the houses had been evacuated. Reporter this young woman rushed to help an elderly neighbor. Oh, my gosh, it hurts so bad. Yelling for her, because she cant hear very well, then she saw me and was like, we have to go. Reporter another fire fight was happening behind the houses. It appears the fire started, and spread to a row of eucalyptus trees that created a buf
We had to leave the boat behind, he is a little bummed out right now. It has been a difficult and intense fire to fight in part because it is burning in steep terrain and all the vegetation is very drive from the drought it is serving as fuel for the fire. Calfire has been using 11 Fire Fighters helicopters. There is nearly 900 fire personnel. The crews will be meeting for a briefing at 7 am. We will hopefully well have more information about what direction the fire is burning and if it has grown overnight. Thanks janine dela vega. Four homes were destroyed. Eight more damaged when a spark on the edge of highway 101 in petaluma spread into brush and ignited a row of eucalyptus trees. Two people were injured. Calfire dropped water from a helicopter on the dry trees to help stop the flames from spreading even further. Coming up at 5 30 we will go live to petaluma to find out how the neighborhood is doing. The weather is key to all of those stories. Dave larson is life with your forecast.