Ridgewood mail clerk arrested on gift card theft charges

One mail clerk's alleged holiday gift card caper is at an end, authorities said.

Members of the Glen Rock Police Department and the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Postal Service arrested a mailroom clerk out of the Ridgewood post office on Tuesday, said Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann. The man had been working at the Glen Rock post office and was not identified by the police.

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The man is accused of stealing gift cards from holiday greeting cards in October, but police believe that other thefts might have happened throughout the holiday season.

Matthew Modafferi, deputy special agent in charge at the postal service's Northeast regional office, said the suspect could be charged with "theft of lost property, mislaid, or delivered by mistake."

Police are continuing to investigate the thefts and are asking if residents, especially in Glen Rock and Ridgewood, believe their mail might have been stolen, to contact the U.S. Postal Service Office of the Inspector General at 888-877-7644.

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