San Antonians are on high alert as police have recently nabbed two men in unrelated mail theft incidents, marking a concerning surge in this type of crime across the city. Fox San Antonio reported that Aaron Ledger was arrested on the far North Side after officers found him with a stash of 239 pieces of stolen mail inside his vehicle. Nearby mailboxes were also reportedly damaged. Ledger’s arrest was coupled with pending active warrants unrelated to the mail theft.
In a separate incident, KSAT reveals that 39-year-old Orlando Castro was taken into custody near Patricia Drive, caught red-handed with a bag of mail pilfered from more than 80 victims. Castro, snagged just ahead of a new local campaign to curtail mail theft, was reportedly seeking credit cards among the stolen correspondence. A second suspect managed to evade capture.
As the holiday season approaches, a time traditionally associated with spiked incidents of theft, local authorities and the City of San Antonio team up to launch a new awareness campaign. “It’s not just because of the holidays right now, but I would say it is more, occurring a lot more,” Sergeant Ariel Hernandez, a public information officer for the San Antonio Police Department, emphasized in a statement aiming to underscore the year-round threat posed by mail theft, as stated by KSAT…