A U.S. Postal Service postal worker was caught driving his personal car to the U.S.-Canada border with a mailed ballot in his car, and he confessed that he had left mailers in his car up to nine times.
A Buffalo postal worker was caught driving his personal vehicle across the U.S.-Canada border on Tuesday when U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) discovered up to 800 pieces of mail in his vehicle, including mail-in ballots from the Erie County Board of Elections, which had not been completed, the New York Post reported, citing The Buffalo News.
After his arrest, mailman Brandon Wilson, 27, confessed that the mail was intended for his mother, but he could not explain why he was carrying someone else’s mail through the border.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent Brendan M. Boone, who is also a member of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection team, was in the car. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agent Brendan M. Boone said Wilson collected mail from his duty routes and stored it in his car between four and nine times starting in September 2020, confessing that he intended to put the stored mail into the Post Office’s “misclassification” system before he went to work in the morning. “He denied knowledge of the seizure of the mail ballots in the vehicle.
The prosecutor on the case, James Kennedy Jr. said the defendant engaged in criminal conduct that violated personal liberties and the integrity of the election, and has now been charged with delaying and destroying mail, and faces five years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted.
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