Description

ARMED ROBBERY

Incident #

20230119-1835-02

CHARLOTTE — A postal service employee was kidnapped and robbed at gunpoint, according to a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police report.

It happened on Candlewood Drive, which is in a neighborhood near South Boulevard in south Charlotte. According to the report, a mailman was robbed while delivering packages to homes there.

A neighbor told Channel 9′s Almiya White the incident has her worried for her safety, and others said they’re on edge

Brown had just gotten home Thursday afternoon when she learned her mail carrier had been robbed. According to the report, a 66-year-old postal employee was kidnapped at gunpoint around 6:30 p.m. that day.

He told police his arrow key, which is what postal workers use to unlock mailboxes, was stolen, along with his phone.