A brazen broad daylight heist earlier this week at a United States Post Office in Orange County was captured on camera when thieves nearly ran down a postal worker as they tried to get away with a haul of mail.
Cellphone footage of the incident posted to Instagram shows thieves in a dark-colored four-door sedan trying to drive out of the post office parking lot in Fullerton as a female postal worker was standing in their way.
The driver continues driving, backing the postal worker up, eventually pushing her into the street where she was thrown down as they turn out of the parking lot and drive off.
“The suspects were at the rear dock to the post office and took one of the bins off that dock and attempted to leave,” Fullerton Police Department Sgt. Ryan O’Neil told KTLA’s John Fenoglio.
Sgt. O’Neil said that the suspects, three males, snatched the crate filled with hundreds of pieces of mail just before 4 p.m. on Jan. 23.
A bystander captured the video, which has since gone viral on social media, while others called 911.