U.S. Postal Service officials are investigating the theft of a $1,500 gold coin that appears to have been delivered to a Parish Lane home and signed for fraudulently, police said.
At 6:53 p.m. on Nov. 4, police were dispatched to the residence on a report that the package had been listed as delivered four hours prior, and signed for by someone using the would-be recipient’s real surname, according to a police report.
A review of video surveillance at the house did not turn up useful evidence, police said. Two days earlier, a $100 gold coin was meant to have been delivered to the residence but never came, officials said.
The U.S. Postmaster is looking into it.
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A woman last week told police that her $2,200 bag went missing at an Elm Street shop with some cash, a phone, wallet and credit cards inside.
The suspected larceny was reported at 3:48 p.m. on Nov. 3, according to a police report. Some time the prior day, the woman told police, she had been shopping downtown and after realizing she’d left her pocketbook at the shop, phoned back only to hear that no one there had seen one and nobody turned it in.
The woman tried to track down her phone but it apparently had been turned off, the report said.
An initial review of video surveillance didn’t help, police said.