Mail carrier charged with stealing mail from customers

WEYMOUTH, Mass. -- A postal carrier was arrested, accused of stealing mail from customers on his delivery route.

Post Office officials were receiving complaints from people in Milton who weren't getting their mail.

They began investigating that neighborhood's mailman by placing a tracking device inside a package.

Police followed that device back to mail carrier Michael Sullivan's Weymouth home.

They found the package inside his truck, along with 500 other pieces of stolen mail.

He's being charged with receiving stolen property over $250.

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