Lexington Police are looking for a man who might be able to help them figure out where dozens of stolen Christmas cards containing gift cars ended up before the holiday.
One Lexington woman says she dropped off nearly 40 cards to the Bluegrass Station post office but would later learn that several of them never left the drop box on Lansdowne Drive.
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“She went and did her own investigation and found out that one of the gift cards that she’d sent had a Walmart gift card in it as a gift to someone and it never made it, but it had been cashed,” Detective Mark Thomas with the Lexington Police Department told LEX 18’s Kristen Pflum.
Using the code on the card, police were able to trace it to a man who drove to the Walmart in Hamburg to use the card.
Detectives wonder if he knew it was stolen.
“This could be something that he bought at a pawn shop through a third party, or online. So we don’t want to say right away this is the person who stole the mail, but we do want to talk to him about how he came into possession of a stolen gift card,” said Thomas.
If the man didn’t steal it, police wonder who did.
“If mail is being stolen at a post office, not only is that a felony, but that affects peoples’ confidence in the postal service,” said Thomas. “So we want to make sure if we have someone that’s inside that’s stealing mail that’s been dropped off for delivery that we catch that person.”
Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward for information leading to an arrest.
Call the Crime Stoppers tipline at (859) 253-2020.
