A dozen people were arrested in Santa Clara County over an alleged mail theft perpetrated by a fraud ring earlier this month, according to police.
The Santa Clara Police Department said that around 4:10 a.m. on Aug. 5, officers were alerted to a reported mail theft in the 1900 block of Hillebrant Place in Santa Clara. Investigators later found surveillance footage of the crime which showed someone fleeing the scene in a black Lexus. Detectives found and surveilled the vehicle, police said. Patrol officers then pulled it over and detained its driver.
'A search of the apartment revealed large amounts of stolen mail, U.S. Postal mail keys, a U.S. Postal mail uniform, U.S. Postal mail locks, narcotics packaged for sales, electronic gambling machines, narcotics paraphernalia, body armor, notebooks containing Personal Identifying Information , and suspected stolen property. The suspected stolen property included identification cards, checkbooks, passports, license plates, credit cards, and documents belonging to dozens of victims.
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