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The Back Story On The Mysterious Mail Case In The Scenic Heights Subdivision.(Community)

Publication: Bulverde Standard (Canyon Lake, TX)
Publication Date: 12-MAR-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Byline: Douglas Kirk for Bulverde Standard

Part 28 In A Series

With the arrest of a suspect in the case where hundreds of pounds of unsolicited mail was delivered to his home, Herbert G. Sanchez can rest a little easier.

It has been, after all, an expensive eighteen month that...

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...investigation has now identified a suspect, and in the months ahead, innocence or guilt will be determined.

But how did all this come to pass? Who did what, and why?

It all started on September 7, 2006 when Sanchez received a packet in the mail from the United States Navy. Even though Sanchez is a patriotic American, an experienced pilot and a former police officer, he figured his age, 69 at the time, would exclude him from the profile a recruiter might solicit. So he put the packet away without much additional thought.

There was no reason to give it much due, at least not until he then received another letter, and another, and another, and then magazines and then more and more and even a box of CDs from Columbia House. In fact, all of a sudden, a flood of mail arrived at his home.

The postal carrier had to start putting the mail in those plastic two-handled containers so Sanchez could carry it up to the house. In all, there were more than fifty different companies sending Sanchez unsolicited mail--recruiters, a diesel mechanics school, realtors with re-location packets, and magazines--lots and lots of magazines.

After that, of course, came the bills for all those magazines, more than $1,000 worth, including demands for payments and associated threats.

It was obvious, when mail even came to his wife's daughter's maiden name, that someone with a little computer savvy had researched the Sanchez family on the internet.

Margaret Sanchez got on the phone, spent hundreds of dollars in long distance charges and time, and systematically began cancelling magazine subscriptions.

Herbert Sanchez went to the post office in Sattler to see if he could get the situation checked out. They sent him to the post office in New Braunfels and they in turn sent him to the main post...

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