‘Everything was gone’: Southwest Las Vegas victims describe growing mail theft problem

Sincity Press Staff 1 hour ago 1 min read 3
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A woman says thieves stole mail from her neighborhood mailbox cluster and used a credit card taken from the missing mail to rack up more than $600 in unauthorized charges.

Southwest Las Vegas resident Bonnie Tollefson found her mailbox empty in early June after her husband checked it. The couple had not retrieved their mail for several days, expecting at least a government flyer, a solicitation or some junk mail, but discovered nothing. Tollefson then visited the station bureau on West Russell Road, where a postal clerk informed her that “there's been a batch of theft in the country and besides id