Story 1:
On
the hunt for illegal narcotics being shipped via Express Mail, a Michigan man allegedly
repeatedly entered a sorting facility, claimed to be a postal inspector, and
walked out with dozens of parcels, many of which contained marijuana,
investigators charge.
Wiggins, an investigator reported, admitted that he “previously had been involved in mailing marijuana via USPS Express Mail and was tired of having the parcels seized.”
So he allegedly sought to seize the parcels of other drug traffickers.
A surveillance team spotted Wiggins entering the facility on March 3 and walking “towards the area of the plant where the Express Mail was being processed.” There, Wiggins was seen taking two parcels and placing them into a wheeled hamper.
Wiggins told federal agents that on “numerous occasions” he had gone to the Romulus facility and “posed as a Postal Inspector in order to steal Express Mail parcels which he believed contained controlled substances,” according to an affidavit sworn by a postal inspector.
Many of the pinched parcels “did contain Marijuana,” revealed Wiggins, who estimated that he had swiped between 40 and 50 Express Mail packages.
The probe of the mail thefts began in January, when postal inspectors determined that multiple packages destined for the Detroit area went missing. Many of the parcels were characteristic of packages that, in the past, had been found to contain controlled substances.
Last month, a review of surveillance footage showed a black male suspect entering the Romulus plant on Saturday, February 11 and walking out with eight packages ranging in weight from two to 28 pounds. The swiped parcels “all originated from known narcotic source areas,” noted Postal Inspector Edmond Rose.
Anticipating that the suspect would return, federal agents Saturday staked out the Priority Mail Center, where they allegedly caught Wiggins in the act.
Wiggins was named in a two-count felony complaint charging him with theft of mail and impersonating a government employee. At a court appearance yesterday, a magistrate judge freed Wiggins on a $10,000 unsecured bond.
Story 2:
Kevin Glennon's Vikings, Vampires, and Mailmen is a novel about a secret government agency that exterminates the undead. The United States Vampire Service (USVS) is the pseudonym of a licensed contractor of the Postal Inspector’s Office, the police arm of the United States Postal Service.When an outbreak of undead in Alabama threatens to become an epidemic, Chief Othniel O’Connor and his fistful of men have to stop it before more innocent lives are lost. The discovery of a strange, ancient Viking chamber compounds the problem, and the USVS is forced to reach out for help, only to discover that sometimes vampires aren’t the most malevolent force that must be defended against.
The book brings military tactics, action-adventure, and horror back to a genre that's been hijacked by high school romance and monsters who like wine tasting classes. This is a story about a fellowship of fighters and friends - of their loyalty, sacrifice, and determination to battle for good in the face of evil.
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