Two men face federal charges for robbing postal workers at gunpoint. Antonio Toombs and Lorenzo Brandon each face six charges including conspiracy to assault a mail carrier, conspiracy to commit a crime involving firearms, two counts of mail theft and two counts of mail theft. Mail keys. The suspects are accused of detaining a postman on October 21 and demanding that they hand over their “stock keys”. The arrow keys are used to open blue mailboxes. According to court documents, the first robbery occurred around 12:40 p.m. on Hanna Street in Westwood. Three hours later, a similar robbery was reported at Harry Lee Lane in Coleraine. Court documents say investigators linked Toombs and Brandon to the crimes through security footage of Toombs’ Jeep, cameras reading license plates and text messages between the two men. When they searched Toombs’ Forest Park apartment, they found one of two stolen stock keys, three handguns, checks and debit cards in other people’s names, investigators said. Toombs was arraigned in federal court on Monday and pleaded not guilty. Brandon is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon.
Two men face federal charges for robbing postal workers at gunpoint.
Antonio Toombs and Lorenzo Brandon each face six charges, including conspiracy to assault a mail carrier, conspiracy to commit a crime involving firearms, two counts of theft of mail and two counts of theft of mail keys.
The suspects are accused of detaining two postal women on October 21 and demanding that they hand over their “stock keys”. The arrow keys are used to open blue mailboxes.
According to court documents, the first robbery occurred around 12:40 p.m. on Hanna Street in Westwood.
Three hours later, a similar robbery was reported at Harry Lee Lane in Coleraine.
Court documents say investigators linked Toombs and Brandon to the crimes through security footage of Toombs’ Jeep, cameras that read license plates and text messages between the two men.
When they searched Toombs’ Forest Park apartment, they found one of the two stolen stock keys, three handguns and checks and debit cards in other people’s names, investigators said.
Toombs was arraigned in federal court Monday and pleaded not guilty. Brandon is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon.
