Two Katy residents are behind bars in Colorado for a combined 51 counts involving a mail theft operation.
Brevin Pogue, 27, and Dayana Amador Enamorado, 25, are each being held on $100 million cash bonds in Douglas County, Colorado. Their charges include money laundering, motor vehicle theft, theft, and burglary.
Through surveillance efforts, court records state the Parker Police Department found the pair emptying freestanding blue mailboxes outside several post offices and cluster boxes in the Denver area one night in June.
After repeated complaints of mail theft, Parker police put a tracker inside an envelope in one of the post office’s mailboxes and set up cameras to watch the box. According to court records, the tracker moved from post office to post office, and police were able to identify Pogue and Amador Enamorado as the ones behind it.
The two are believed to have done it before.
Between June and August, police searched a hotel room and an Airbnb they were staying at in Denver and found stacks of stolen mail, $70,000 in cash, more than 577 checks believed to be stolen, USPS arrow keys that unlock the cluster mailboxes, and a notebook with storage unit addresses where money was being kept, according to court records.