40-year-old woman charged with carjacking US Postal Service truck in Detroit
Prosecutors say Sadie Lakisha Hawkins forcefully pulled USPS worker from vehicle before taking off
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DETROIT – A 40-year-old woman has been charged in connection with stealing a United States Postal Service mail truck in Detroit.
Wayne County Prosecutors charged Sadie Lakisha Hawkins, of Detroit, with one count of carjacking, one count of unarmed robbery, one count of receiving and concealing stolen property over $20,000 and one count of unlawful driving away of an automobile.
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A fancy premise, but if we are to trust the renderings released by USPS when the announcement was made, they’re just as ugly as all other mail trucks everywhere, ever; if not more so. So you’ll forgive us if we would have liked something more on the lines of this here Jeep pulling up our driveway.
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Tweet about the suicide from an account tracking police scanner activity (@ChicagoScanner)
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