Man smashed glass post office door and stole postal keys in Virginia, feds say
A man accused of breaking into a post office in Virginia and stealing keys used to open mail receptacles is facing prison time, officials said.
The 48-year-old from Virginia Beach pleaded guilty April 29 to theft of postal keys, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia said in a news release.
He faces up to a decade behind bars when he’s sentenced in September, according to prosecutors.
McClatchy News reached out to his attorney April 30 and was awaiting a response.
The man smashed a glass door at a Chesapeake post office in June and made off with keys, prosecutors said.
He was pulled over two days later in a traffic stop, and initially gave police a false name and said he’d rented the SUV, according to prosecutors.
But the vehicle wasn’t rented as he said, according to prosecutors, and inside “were several small brown envelopes with addresses and mailbox numbers written on them in permanent marker. Inside the envelopes were postal keys attached to tags that read ‘Property of USPS’ that corresponded with the mailboxes,” a court filing said.
The keys were from the Chesapeake post office, prosecutors said.
Police also found “several Georgia driver’s licenses, mail, credit cards, debit cards, and Social Security cards that did not belong to” the man, according to prosecutors.
This story was originally published April 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM with the headline "Man smashed glass post office door and stole postal keys in Virginia, feds say."
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