Readers of Carolyn Cooper’s weekly column in The Sunday Gleaner know that the squalor of Papine Market in Eastern St Andrew is a peeve about which she wrote often, until she perhaps grew tired of the authorities’ failure to not heed her complaints.
Federal authorities announced the arrests of five people Friday in two separate mail carrier robberies in Hillsborough County. It comes amid a nationwide rise in crimes targeting postal workers.
TAMPA — One day in September, a postal carrier was on foot delivering mail on South Hesperides Street in Tampa’s Beach Park neighborhood when he noticed a man in the driver’s seat of his parked mail truck. When seen, the man got out and ran to a Mercedes sedan a few houses away. Officials say the man drove off with the truck’s keys. About 50 minutes later and a mile away, a masked man .