Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho has a clear message: “If you are stealing mail, you are going straight to jail.”
Local leaders announced the formation of the Sacramento Mail Theft Task Force during a Monday news conference in North Natomas, calling it a coordinated effort among the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office, the Rancho Cordova Police Department and the U.S. Postal Service and its Postal Inspection Service.
Sacramento County ranked among the hardest-hit areas in the nation for mail theft, Ho said, particularly in the Natomas neighborhoods of Sacramento, as well as Folsom and Rancho Cordova…