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Could be because of this guy:
10:26 AM CDT on Thursday, October 5, 2006
By JASON TRAHAN / The Dallas Morning News
If you didn't get your Christmas cards last year, authorities may know why.
About 8:25 a.m. Wednesday, a deputy constable clocked a blue 2003 Chevy Silverado pickup traveling 55 mph in a 35 mph zone in the 700 block of West Kiest Boulevard near the Marvin D. Love Freeway in central Oak Cliff.
Inside the truck, the deputy said he saw what turned out to be cocaine and opened mail stuffed into duffel bags and scattered throughout the truck.
When driver Salvador Gonzalez, 33, of Dallas stepped out of the vehicle, the officer noticed he was wearing a U.S. postal worker's uniform. Police said he was rushing to work at a post office when he was stopped.
"He had tons of mail, like old Christmas cards, all kinds of mail he had opened up," said Chief Deputy John L. Garrett with the Precinct 1 constable's office in Dallas. "He had eight or nine credit cards in his possession with different names on them. We assume he had taken them out of the mail."
Authorities impounded his truck, and photographed and seized the mail.
Among the hordes of letters and other random correspondence, deputies found some addressed to a local elected official. Chief Garrett would not disclose whom, although he did say it was not a member of Congress.
Mr. Gonzalez faces state charges of possession of a controlled substance. The Postal Service Office of the Inspector General also is investigating, so Mr. Gonzalez may also face federal charges. A federal spokesman declined to comment on the matter.
Mr. Gonzalez was being held pending arraignment at the Lew Sterrett Justice Center in Dallas.
10:26 AM CDT on Thursday, October 5, 2006
By JASON TRAHAN / The Dallas Morning News
If you didn't get your Christmas cards last year, authorities may know why.
About 8:25 a.m. Wednesday, a deputy constable clocked a blue 2003 Chevy Silverado pickup traveling 55 mph in a 35 mph zone in the 700 block of West Kiest Boulevard near the Marvin D. Love Freeway in central Oak Cliff.
Inside the truck, the deputy said he saw what turned out to be cocaine and opened mail stuffed into duffel bags and scattered throughout the truck.
When driver Salvador Gonzalez, 33, of Dallas stepped out of the vehicle, the officer noticed he was wearing a U.S. postal worker's uniform. Police said he was rushing to work at a post office when he was stopped.
"He had tons of mail, like old Christmas cards, all kinds of mail he had opened up," said Chief Deputy John L. Garrett with the Precinct 1 constable's office in Dallas. "He had eight or nine credit cards in his possession with different names on them. We assume he had taken them out of the mail."
Authorities impounded his truck, and photographed and seized the mail.
Among the hordes of letters and other random correspondence, deputies found some addressed to a local elected official. Chief Garrett would not disclose whom, although he did say it was not a member of Congress.
Mr. Gonzalez faces state charges of possession of a controlled substance. The Postal Service Office of the Inspector General also is investigating, so Mr. Gonzalez may also face federal charges. A federal spokesman declined to comment on the matter.
Mr. Gonzalez was being held pending arraignment at the Lew Sterrett Justice Center in Dallas.