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USPS offers up to $150K for capture of postal carrier robber

This image released by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service on Friday, March 15, 2024, shows one ...

Federal authorities are seeking the public’s help as they search for man they said robbed a mail carrier this month near Summerlin.

The robbery happened about 11:15 a.m. on March 4 in the 11000 block of Village Ridge Lane, near Flamingo Road west of Desert Inn Road, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service wrote Friday in a news release.

The purported robber took off in an SUV, authorities said.

The Postal Inspection Service said it was offering up to $150,000 for information that leads to the robber’s arrest, but warned residents to “take no action to apprehend this person yourself.”

In November, a 55-year-old Las Vegas letter carrier was robbed of two keys that access community mailboxes in the 89144 ZIP code, authorities previously told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

That victim was shocked with a Taser pen, authorities said.

That ZIP code in that attack is in the vicinity of the March robbery.

Officials said electronic locks were being installed on mailboxes nationwide following a rise in crimes against carriers.

Anyone with information was asked to contact postal service investigators at 1-877-876-2455 and say “law enforcement.” The case number is 4264622-ROBB

Contact Ricardo Torres-Cortez at rtorres@reviewjournal.com.

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