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Attorney's Office officials said the three pleaded guilty earlier this year in federal court. It revealed blank check templates, personal checks in various names not belonging to the individuals, two firearms, a printer, and opened mail in various names not belonging to the men, according to Yenger.Īfter months of court proceedings, U.S. Keith Dujuan Calahan left the building carrying two black trash bags that were found to contain mail and two of the GPS parcels.Ī search warrant was then executed at the apartment they left. exited the same building with a small bag that contained checks and a firearm. While police were conducting surveillance of the building, Leonard Blackstone III walked out carrying a "a number of personal checks in various names." When police approached him, he dropped the checks, according to court documents. Police tracked the mail to an apartment building on Gracemore Avenue in Kettering near The Greene, where they became stationary, according to Yenger's affidavit. On May 19, they were alerted that the trackers were on the move again. Police recovered the GPS parcels and put them back in the same mailboxes.

Waffle House run and a two-hour stop at a West Dayton house before being dumped in Harrison Twp. The third parcel stayed with the suspects through a 2:17 a.m. It revealed that one dummy parcel was discarded within a few minutes, while the other two were driven to a Beavercreek post office, from which the suspects fled at 119 mph, according to Yenger. May 14 wasn't processed until the next morning. GPS tracking from a first theft around 1:30 a.m. inside each of the three blue collection boxes" at the Forrer Boulevard post office, which had been targeted in previous thefts, a signed affidavit by U.S. The Kettering police "dummy" parcels were "packaged and marked to appear as a legitimate piece of mail. Kettering police "became aware very early in the investigations into the post office drop box thefts that the perpetrators of these crimes were taking the entire contents of the drop boxes and sorting everything after the fact," patrolman and department spokesman Tyler Johnson said in an email.ĭetectives got the postal service's permission to place three GPS devices inside the drop boxes starting in March 2022, so they would be alerted when the devices moved, Johnson added. But federal court records show how local police used technology in one case to track suspects and make arrests, surprising the men as they carried stolen checks out of an apartment. 9-A string of mailbox thefts has frustrated the Dayton area for the past year, and it's not over.