Willis Bender was charged in October and pleaded guilty Wednesday to receipt or concealment of stolen property of the United States, the U.S. Attorney’s...
Willis Bender was charged in October 2023 and pleaded guilty Wednesday to receipt or concealment of stolen property of the United States.
FILE - U.S. Postal Service trucks park outside a post office, Jan. 29, 2024, in Wheeling, Ill. The number of robberies of postal carriers grew again in 2023 and the number of injuries nearly doubled, even as the U.S. Postal Service launched crackdown aimed at addressing postal crime. A Fort Worth man faces up to a decade in prison after pleading guilty this week to hiding a stolen U.S. Postal Service master key, authorities say.
Willis Bender, 18, was charged in October and pleaded guilty Wednesday to receipt or concealment of stolen property of the United States, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas announced in a news release.In plea papers, Bender admitted he hid an “Arrow Key,” or a master key used by the postal service to gather mail deposited in blue collection boxes. The U.S. attorney’s office said the key is “prized by mail thieves.
In his final interview with authorities, Bender said when officers responding to the robbery arrived, he “looked outside and saw the stolen arrow key sitting outside his door,” the U.S. attorney’s office said. Bender, according to the U.S. attorney’s office, then said he took the key and hid it behind the air duct grill in his bedroom, alongside his gun, in an effort to avoid getting in trouble.
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