Baton Rouge Police arrested a man Thursday who is accused of robbing a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier at gunpoint last month.
Harold Retana, 31, was charged with armed robbery with a firearm and booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison. He was arrested by police armed robbery detectives, with assistance from U.S. Postal Inspectors. Tips from the public led to his arrest, police said.
Police say that on January 12, Retana approached a mail carrier on the 1300 block of Audubon Avenue. Armed with a handgun, Retana demanded the keys to the carrier’s vehicle. He made off with the keys, but not the mail truck or any packages, police said…