Then there is this guy.
Stolen cell phones, Super Bowl ring lead to felony charges against 3 Indy USPS workers
Yes, you read that correctly. A Super Bowl ring. Let’s set aside for a moment the question of why someone would mail a Super Bowl ring via USPS. Believe it or not, that is not the dumbest part of the story.
Three United States Postal Service employees are facing felony charges of official misconduct and theft after allegedly stealing cell phones and a Super Bowl ring from the distribution center on Indy’s east side.
According to court records, the investigation started when postal inspectors got a tip that cell phones were being stolen and pawned.
When investigators came to the distribution center on Brookville Road to look into the thefts, they found one suspect wearing the Super Bowl ring.
Yes, he was walking around at work at a postal center. Wearing a Super Bowl ring.
Wearing. A. Super. Bowl. Ring.
In late January, one of those rings showed up at the distribution center and a postal supervisor reported the ring had been found. Yet according to court records, instead of being sent to a recovery center in Atlanta, the ring was taken and was being worn by Shavez Walker.
Shavez Walker, not the sharpest tool in the shed. Then again, did no one else notice this guy had been wearing a Super Bowl ring…from 1995…when he is 33 and would have been around 2 when the 49ers won that Super Bowl?
I am surprised that he was caught but then he employed a standard 2G legal defense, Foundius On Forkliftus.
While inspectors also believe Walker pawned nine different cell phones at ECO ATMs since last year, he is not charged with a crime for those sales.
However, two other suspects, Marcus Milbrooks and Doneeka Terry, are charged with stealing and selling dozens of cell phones.
For his part, Walker claimed he found the ring on a forklift and reported it to a supervisor. Investigators checked surveillance video and found no evidence of Walker finding the ring where he claimed.
They also found numerous surveillance images of him coming to work and wearing the large ring on the job.
The Indianapolis postal hub is infamous around here for being incompetent and corrupt. I had a couple of stripped lower receivers get “lost” coming through there and packages often just disappear for weeks on end before finally getting loose and arriving at their destination.
Still, a guy is walking around a distribution center wearing a $10,000 Super Bowl ring and no one seems to notice?
Is there is a better example of the sub inability to consider the consequences of their actions? Super Bowl rings are gaudy by design and not really intended for daily wear but Shavez didn’t think about this. He could probably have quietly sold this ring and gotten some decent coin but instead he gives into the 2G obsession with appearing successful by the wearing of ostentatious jewelry and clothing but in this case chose something so overt that it drew the inevitable attention leading to his arrest.
That doesn’t even touch the fact that blacks are looting the mail like it is Christmas every day at their job. It has been a well established practice for a long time that you just don’t send anything valuable in the mail, especially not cash. Now I have shipped firearms as an FFL using USPS but those packages get special treatment and tracking so it has never been a problem but regular mail? You are crazy to send anything with any value through the mail.
Especially a Super Bowl ring….