A Cheektowaga post office collection box was broken into, leading to hundreds of checks stolen, altered and cashed by thieves. Now, three people have been arrested in connection to those thefts.
The Cayuga Street post office in Cheektowaga is a popular spot for people to drop off their mail, but according to a criminal complaint from the US Attorneys’ Office, it hasn’t been the safest option.
WKBWOne of the victims of this string of stolen checks, the letter carriers’ union itself.
“Tens of thousands of dollars,” President of the National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 3 David Grosskopf Jr. said. “Somebody had our checks in New Jersey, attempting to cash them. The bank called us right away, we told them we didn’t make any checks out to anybody in New Jersey, we don’t know why they are trying to cash them.”
Grosskopf told me just about a month ago 20-30 of their checks were stolen out of blue collection boxes on Cayuga Street, then the checks were “washed.”