A former U.S. Postal Service worker in San Carlos who stole thousands of pieces of mail for their credit cards was sentenced Tuesday to a year in County Jail and three years of probation, and he also was ordered to enter a drug rehabilitation program.
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A committee of the Board of Supervisors will consider two gun-control measures today that were proposed by Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor Malia Cohen. Both have been approved and endorsed by the Police Department and are sure to pass at the full board.
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The latest scuffle between postal carrier and dog ended in a draw in San Francisco’s Cayuga Terrace neighborhood Tuesday.The carrier, who was bitten while delivering mail in the 200 block of Tingley Street around 3 p.m., pepper-sprayed the dog and fled.He told police the large white yapping pooch suddenly pushed open a closed gate and charged at him. Police later located the dog, along with its owner.
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Here's some junk mail. A hero mailman working his route in Belmont delivered three burglars to cops Monday afternoon, police said. The mailman called 911 after spotting three suspicious men at a home on Yorkshire Way and noticing an open gate to the backyard of the residence, Belmont police said.
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Neither rain, nor snow, nor fireworks? The U.S. Postal Service was the victim of a child prankster who set off fireworks in one of its mailboxes on the Fourth of July, police said. The budding reprobate, described as being between 9 and 12 years old, stuffed the fireworks into a mailbox at Hayes and Buchanan streets around 4:30 p.m., setting the mail inside on fire, police said. He fled the scene and has not been apprehended.rnagle@sfexaminer.com
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Several buildings in Hayes Valley were evacuated Thursday after a resident said he ordered a cooking mold from eBay but was instead mailed an old-school bomb, police said.The package arrived at the residence in the 400 block of Linden Street around 2 p.m. Inside the package was a “vintage” 40 millimeter antiaircraft mortar projectile, police spokesman Lt. Troy Dangerfield said Friday.
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First, a number of beloved post offices in San Francisco were threatened with closure due to the U.S. Postal Service’s burgeoning fiscal troubles.Now, the federal agency is considering stopping Saturday delivery in order to make up a projected $7 billion shortfall this year. “It means I won’t get my Netflix on Saturday,” Barry Prioste said laughing as he waited for a friend at a downtown post office Tuesday afternoon.
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