MIAMI (AP) — A serial mail thief in Florida has been sentenced to 10 years behind bars for stealing items from porches and mailboxes.
Federal prosecutors said in a news release that 26-year-old Yunior Blanco-Pedroso that the sentence followed his March guilty plea to mail theft and stolen mail possession.
Evidence in the case indicated that Blanco-Pedroso admitted committing 10 porch burglaries in 2020 in Miami and Coral Gables.
Investigators say surveillance video showed that Blanco-Pedroso followed mail delivery trucks, then stole mail from people’s boxes and front porches. Blanco-Pedroso was already on probation for a previous conviction for robbing a mail carrier.
