MORE FROM POLICE ON POSTAL ARMED ROBBERY

From Maplewood Police this afternoon:


TO: All Media Outlets

FM: Captain Marucci      

DT: 03-26-14

RE:  Press Release

On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at 1651 hours officers responded to the Maplewood Post Office on Maplewood Ave on a report of a mail carrier robbed at gunpoint.   

Officers were able to determine that a mail carrier was delivering mail in the 200 block of Laurel Ave about ten minutes in the past when he was approached by two black males one armed with a handgun.  The suspects demanded the mail carriers phone and money then fled the scene on foot eastbound on Laurel Ave.   

The suspects are described as both being approximately twenty years old, six feet tall, with slim builds.   

The mail carrier was unharmed during the incident which is under investigation by the Maplewood Police Department Detective Bureau and the United States Postal Inspectors Office.   

Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to call the Maplewood Police Detective Bureau at 973-761-7926.