Man charged with looting mail boxes after evacuation

Posted: August 29, 2011

A man has been arrested and charged with looting mail boxes in a neighborhood at the Shore that had been evacuated because of Hurricane Irene, police said Monday.

Egg Harbor Township police said an off-duty Ocean City police officer on Saturday reported seeing two males walking through the area of Somers Point-Mays Landing Road and Steelmanville Road and that one of them was going through mail boxes.

When police responded they found mail that had been scattered about and returned it.

Officer Brian Keane also arrested two men.

Robert Payne, 25, of Somers Point, was charged with the mail theft, possession of stolen property and possession of marijuana under 50 grams, police said.

Charles Watkins, 24, of Mays Landing, was arrested on outstanding warrants from the Atlantic County Sheriff's Office, police said.

Both were held at the Atlantic County jail.


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