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HANFORD, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A antheral was arrested aft hundreds of stolen message from crossed 3 counties successful the Central Valley were recovered successful his location successful February, the Hanford Police Department announced Monday.
Police accidental connected Feb. 19, they assisted the Kings County Probation Department with a probation compliance hunt successful the 900 artifact of Ogden Street. During the operation, 34-year-old Michael Hendricks was contacted and detained.
During the hunt of a residence, investigators reported hundreds of items of mail, opened and unopened, were found. The message stolen included commencement certificates, societal information cards, IDs, recognition and debit cards, taxation documents, and idiosyncratic checks from victims crossed Kings, Fresno, and Tulare counties.
Along with the stolen mail, detectives study instrumentality utilized to make fake IDs and checks were located and much stolen property.
The lawsuit was turned implicit to Hanford constabulary who, implicit the past month, person worked to place imaginable victims. Officers accidental arsenic of Monday, astir 185 victims person been identified. Detectives study the United States Postal Inspection Service has been investigating further crimes related to this probe and further grounds that was located.
As a result, Hendricks was booked into Kings County Jail connected suspicion of a bid of charges.
