By Larry Altman

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A police officer who walked up to a car parked illegally in a handicapped space in El Segundo arrested two men and a woman when he noticed stolen mail in their back seat, police said Monday.

The officer approached the car about 1:10 a.m. Wednesday when he noticed it in a disabled space outside the 7-Eleven at Imperial Avenue and Main Street, police said.

Two of the packages were open and contained mail with Rancho Palos Verdes addresses. The officer also found a bag of letters and a stack of credit cards, police said.

An investigation resulted in police recovering hundreds of recently stolen pieces of mail, altered credit cards and driver licenses, credit card skimming devices, a credit card embossing machine, a counterfeit postal key and a methamphetamine smoking pipe, police said.

Arrested on suspicion of identity theft were Joseph Montes, 29, and Andrew Garcia, 28, both of Los Angeles, and Marisa Delgado, 27, of Glendale. The District Attorney’s Office filed several felonies against them.

The car was rented using the identity of a victim whose stolen property was still in the vehicle, police said.