A Boston lady pleaded responsible to armed theft of U.S. Postal Service carriers in Mattapan and Hyde Park.
Myesha Lewis, 22, pleaded responsible Wednesday in federal court docket in Boston to a number of prices associated to her function within the Nov. 29, 2022, Mattapan theft and the Dec. 16, 2022, Hyde Park theft. In accordance with court docket paperwork, she was the getaway driver and prison companion to co-conspirator Kenneth Demosthene, who was sentenced to a few years in jail every week in the past.
Prosecutors say that Lewis and Demosthene robbed two letter carriers of their “Arrow” keys, which unlock the blue U.S.P.S. letter drop packing containers that line the town. The packing containers have been a longtime goal of thieves who both “fish” for letters inside with instruments or, extra expediently, rob letter carriers of their grasp keys. The thing is to attain checks within the envelopes.
The Postal Inspection Service famous an uptick between 2016 and 2021 in “mailbox fishing” in Massachusetts. The usP.S. responded with packing containers hardened in opposition to such fishing, however that led to a spike in robberies of letter carriers.
There have been “at least” 23 assaults on letter carriers in Boston and surrounding communities since July 2022, in accordance with a Wednesday assertion from the U.S. Legal professional’s workplace. Of those, 15 robbers have been armed with a knife, gun or each.
Court docket data don’t point out that Lewis and Demosthene have been armed of their earlier theft in Mattapan however that the second theft was made at knife level.
