Kent mail thief caught red-handed after detective watches him hit 17 mailboxes in a row

In Kent, a suspected mail thief is behind bars after a detective caught him red-handed stealing from neighborhood mailboxes.

The arrest happened at approximately 8 a.m. last Saturday after the detective spotted a 24-year-old man opening mailbox after mailbox along a street. When confronted by the detective, the suspect said he was collecting the mail for other family members and that he would only look at it, then put it down.

“I literally found it,” the suspect said, according to bodycam footage from the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office…

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