Videos help nail mail theft suspect
Anyone
in the Moyie Springs area who suspects they
might be missing mail from rural mail boxes
recently are being asked to call both the
Boundary County Sheriff's Office and U.S. Postal
inspectors after a 42 year old Sandpoint woman
confessed to robbing mail from the Moyie Bridge
to Troy, Montana.Both agencies are building cases against Jamey D. Wallace, who is free on $25,000 bond after being charged with both grand theft and petit theft.
The case against Wallace broke after the Bonners Ferry Police Department was notified of a suspicious $5,000 check that had been allegedly altered and cashed at Mountain West Bank in Bonners Ferry January 6 in a transaction captured on video.
Right after cashing the check, the woman walked across the street to Larson's where she allegedly lifted nearly $250 in merchandise, again caught on camera.
At 5:01 p.m. Monday, January 13, an alert employee at Larson's saw the same woman enter the store and called police, who responded at once and took Wallace into custody.
Faced with the evidence against her, she confessed not only to allegedly stealing and forging the theft and shoplifting, but to having taken checks, packages and Netflix movies from mailboxes stretching from Moyie Springs to Troy on Friday, January 3.
U.S. Postal Service investigators are trying to identify everyone who is missing mail in that area, and ask that anyone whom they have not contacted who is missing mail call 1-877-876-2455. The Boundary County Sheriff's Office is also building their case against her, and ask that they also be called at (208) 267-3151, extension 0.
If mail was stolen in Montana, call the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, Libby, at (406) 293-4112.