USPS employee robbed at gunpoint in broad daylight

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forward. >> Good evening everyone. I'm Mike Mibach and I'm Julie Julie Haener. >> The robbery happened Monday afternoon in a Dublin neighborhood. The two men reportedly approached that postal carrier. One was armed. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service says this is among at least six mail carrier robberies here in the Bay area since last month. New at ten tonight. KTVU is Amber Lee joins us now live from Dublin after speaking with this latest victim in Amber. She's now taking at least a month off of work to try to process what happened. >> That's right Julie. She is definitely shaken up but tells me she's grateful that she wasn't physically harmed. Now Dublin police and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service are jointly investigating this case and that the robbery was caught on tape. Surveillance video shows the female postal carrier putting items into a mailbox in front of a home in Dublin Monday afternoon around 430, when suddenly a masked man, followed by a second person comes up from behind her. The postal worker, who asked not to be identified, describes being robbed at gunpoint. >> Somebody came behind me and boom, just hit me and put a gun to the back of my head and he said, give me your keys. You don't want to die, do you? I go, no, no, no. So I reached in and got my keys, gave him my keys. He goes, where's your phone? You got two minutes. The carrier went to the mail truck to get her phone and handed it to the armed robber while fearing the worst. Oh my God, I'm going to die! >> But the two men ran away after taking the keys to mailboxes and the truck along with her cell phone, she went to a neighbor for help in calling 911. I thought he was going to shoot me when he was done, but I thought, well, I'm thinking in my mind, just stay calm, stay calm, stay calm. >> That's the best thing to do is stay calm. >> She says she did not suffer any physical injuries but is struggling with what happened. She tells me she's getting help from a psychiatrist. I feel anxious and I can't sleep and my heart is like pounding. Still, she proudly showed me her uniform. She says she has worked for the US Postal Service for 33 years. The 63 year old tells me she had planned to retire in about a year and a half. Do you think you'll be able to go back to work? >> I want to, I really want to, because I like my job, but I think I will. I love my customers. I like to serve them. >> One neighbor shared surveillance video of a possible suspect vehicle seen driving to and from the scene. It's a blue sedan. The mail carrier tells me she's grateful for all the support she's received from neighbors and Dublin police. The US Postal Inspection Service is offering a reward of up to $150,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible. >> Julie, Mike and Amber, you learned that there have been other robberies in the past month of postal workers. Have they been in this same area in the East Bay or are they happening elsewhere? >> Well, the postal official told me there's been one in Gilroy and Stockton and elsewhere in the Bay area. >> All right
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Length: 3min 10sec (190 seconds)
Published: Thu May 09 2024
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