VANDERBURGH COUNTY, Ind.–A UPS employee from Vanderburgh County was arrested Tuesday after investigators said he admitted to stealing parcels during an investigation into a missing firearm shipment.
Deputies were called to a local gun store on Aug. 18 after a firearm shipped through UPS to an out-of-state buyer failed to arrive. The package had reportedly been shipped several days earlier, but tracking information was unavailable.
A Sheriff’s Office detective assigned as a Task Force Officer with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, along with a special agent from the local ATF field office, began investigating the missing firearm…