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A UPS driver in Newark, New Jersey, questioned an odd package sent from Eau Claire, which turned out to be a part of a cash scam.
According to a post on the Eau Claire Police Department’s Facebook page, the driver identified the odd package and worked with Eau Claire authorities to return the funds. The victim was tricked into thinking a relative was in jail and wouldn’t be released until she sent $8400 in cash.
Sheriff’s deputies in South Carolina arrested five UPS employees last week on suspicion of stealing guns out of packages at the company’s hub in West Columbia.
Officials with the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department said Byron Burke, 19, Jalen Green, 19, Dishon Kinney, 18, Kenyon Peters, 18, and Tre’von Williams, 19, face charges of breach of trust. Deputies said Kinney and Peters were also charged with criminal conspiracy.
Authorities said they were called by members of UPS’ security team after the shipping company realized guns were being stolen from incoming trucks.
Phoenix police are investigating a work-related death at the UPS facility near Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport’s shipping area.
Officers were called to the area around 6:00 a.m. Wednesday for reports of an injured person.
Officials say the victim, identified as 50-year-old Scott Morris, was pinned between a loading dock and tractor trailer.
Even under normal circumstances, summer can be a difficult time for UPS drivers – especially in a state like Georgia. These are most certainly not normal times, and an Atlanta area driver says under the additional burdens of the pandemic, the job is becoming unbearable.
The driver, who wished to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation, told 11Alive she normally loves her work.
But now, she says, it has “become a very exhausting job mentally and physically – very hard days, very long days actually now. It’s kind of just taking over our bodies.”
Langston Walbuck knows the routine: stand on the balcony and wait for a package. But sadly, Langston never gets one from his neighborhood UPS driver Hector Velasco.
“I came right up to your neighbors and he’s like ‘I want one too!’ I felt like I couldn’t do anything at the time, but I’m like you know what, let me see if I can try to bright his day, you know what I mean,” said Velasco.
Seeing Langston’s sadness, Velasco decided to rummage around for something to deliver leaving a note for his parents promising a special delivery the next day.
Inside the special delivery: toy race cars and candy.
“It made me feel special,” said Langston.