Postman Stole 2,200 Video Games
Pinched over $86,000 worth of games from incoming GameFly subscription mail.
Not your average Philadelphian gamer.
We've heard of the odd, dodgy postman helping themselves to parcel contents but this is ridiculous. An ex-postal service worker in Philadelphia admitted in court to stealing 2,200 computer games with a value totalling $86,000 yesterday.
Reginald Johnson, 34, of Germantown, consistently pilfered through numerous GameFly packages on their way to gamers in the Philadelphia area. In late 2007 reports from residents of missing packages were sent to the Postal Service's Office of Inspector General and a surveillance was conducted in September 2008.
When Feds tried to arrest Johnson after discovering him as the culprit, he zoomed off in his SUV and subsequently crashed it. Obviously Forza or Gran Turismo weren't the games he was helping himself to.
Johnson faces 12 to 18 months in prison, with U.S. District Judge Berle M. Schiller to set the sentencing for 13th January.
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Reginald Johnson, 34, of Germantown, consistently pilfered through numerous GameFly packages on their way to gamers in the Philadelphia area. In late 2007 reports from residents of missing packages were sent to the Postal Service's Office of Inspector General and a surveillance was conducted in September 2008.
When Feds tried to arrest Johnson after discovering him as the culprit, he zoomed off in his SUV and subsequently crashed it. Obviously Forza or Gran Turismo weren't the games he was helping himself to.
Johnson faces 12 to 18 months in prison, with U.S. District Judge Berle M. Schiller to set the sentencing for 13th January.
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Crimson 16 Oct 2009 13:29
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What a doofus. Everyone knows you switch your targets at random to make it more difficult to spot the pattern! Duh.
deleted 17 Oct 2009 02:26
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Gamefly are stupid here too, like most of our rental services, lovefilm, blockbuster etc, all the envelopes are labelled to the max with whats in there, i cant even remember how many items i have had go missing in the post from rental services, etailers and basically anyone using royal mail, now i make sure to pay the extra for next day i fi can and more importantly i try not to use royal mail if another company option is there i will, sounds like the US postal system is just as bad as ours.
I used to work for royal mail and all missing items are supposed to be sent to a sorting office in Northern Ireland, apparently there are hundreds of thousands of items of mail just sitting there, royal mail are supposed to search though this stuff and then post it to where ever they can original recepient, original sender anything they cant send is sold and dontaed to charity!!! what get sme is i have had at least 30 items in the last 2 years go missing and not once since becoming an adult 15 years ago have i ever had a missing item actually arrive at a later date. i dont trust the mail system, when i worked there it was a regular problem for (temp) customer service advisors to be arrested for mail faud!! at least 1 a week!!!!
I used to work for royal mail and all missing items are supposed to be sent to a sorting office in Northern Ireland, apparently there are hundreds of thousands of items of mail just sitting there, royal mail are supposed to search though this stuff and then post it to where ever they can original recepient, original sender anything they cant send is sold and dontaed to charity!!! what get sme is i have had at least 30 items in the last 2 years go missing and not once since becoming an adult 15 years ago have i ever had a missing item actually arrive at a later date. i dont trust the mail system, when i worked there it was a regular problem for (temp) customer service advisors to be arrested for mail faud!! at least 1 a week!!!!