KATY, Texas (KTRK) — People living in a Katy neighborhood tell ABC13 they’re fed up because their mailboxes keep getting broken into, and they said their mail is going missing.
“The mailbox on our side has been broken in at least four or five times in the last few months; we’ve gone everywhere,” Paul Hernandez said.
Hernandez said he and his neighbors have filed police reports and postal inspector reports, but have reached their limits because nothing has changed.
“Something has to be done ultimately. I mean, not today, not tomorrow, I mean now,” Hernandez said.
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For neighbor and veteran William Darby, he said necessities being mailed to him are vanishing.
“I’m getting frustrated over it because my medication from the VA, comes through the mail, if I don’t get my medication, I got asthma medication coming in, I got blood pressure medication coming in, I got cream coming in for bad places on my head,” Darby said. “Without my blood pressure medicine, I get frustrated.”
Darby said he thinks it could be an inside job.
“Nothing we can do about it, but it makes me angry that somebody is stealing from us, and it’s not the first time, the time before that – they had a key,” Darby said. “Somebody’s getting a key somehow or another.”
While ABC13 can’t confirm the Katy area is being hit with internal mail theft, the United States Postal Inspector’s Office confirms they are aware of the theft in the neighborhood and are investigating.
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