DWI stop nets piles of stolen mail

Waite Park police pulled over a driver on suspicion of drunken driving and found all kinds of stolen mail

January 29, 2014 at 3:47PM

Waite Park police pulled over a driver who they thought was drunk. During a search of the vehicle, they found a large stack of mail taken from mail boxes in Stearns, Benton and Sherburne counties. The mail was postmarked from Jan. 14-20 and some goes back to December.

Residents from St. Cloud, Sauk Rapids, Becker, Clear Lake and Clearwater were affected, according to the St. Cloud Times. If you think your mail was stolen, you can call Waite Park police at 320-251-6300.

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Curt Brown is a former reporter for the Minnesota Star Tribune who writes regularly about Minnesota history.

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