A Florida USPS postal employee was charged after authorities stated he tried to mow down a 10-year-old boy whom he suspected was stealing a bundle from a house.
Florida Freeway Patrol arrested and charged 41-year-old William White Jr. with aggravated assault with a lethal weapon, petit theft and legal mischief for a violent encounter in a residential neighborhood in Escambia County on Dec. 27.
Troopers realized White was dropping off mail and packages within the neighborhood when he delivered one bundle to the unsuitable handle.
A ten-year-old boy who lived on the residence observed that the bundle didn’t belong to his household, so he positioned it on his electrical scooter to ship it to the proper handle.
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Authorities say White noticed the boy take the bundle, instantly suspected he was a porch pirate, and “purposely drove the USPS automobile towards the kid and ran over the scooter.”
Stories present the postal employee then yelled on the little one, grabbed the scooter from beneath his truck, and put it on his truck. When the boy’s member of the family caught as much as White to confront him, he then dropped the scooter in a close-by yard and drove away from the scene.
The boy was in a position to evade the collision and run into a close-by yard, however injured his ankle within the course of. He needed to be taken to a hospital in Pensacola for remedy.
“This isn’t only a easy ‘Oops!’ crash with a 10-year-old. That is an intentional act by a United States postal employee attempting to run over a 10-year-old,” Florida Freeway Patrol Captain Jason King advised WEAR.
King added, “It’s a 10-year-old on a scooter, it’s not a standard porch pirate working up, snatching packages that you simply simply dropped off. It’s superb what a small dialog would do in a scenario slightly than leaping straight to pressure, use of pressure…or actually escalating the scenario well past the place it ought to have been.”
Neighbors agreed with King’s sentiments and imagine that White might have dealt with the scenario in a different way.
“I feel he did go too far. If something, to not chase the child, however try to discover a mother or father or an grownup to speak to,” neighbor Alexus Brown stated.
Troopers gathered witness accounts after which interviewed and arrested White on New Yr’s Eve, three days after the incident.
He was launched from jail on a $5,500 bond. He’ll be again in court docket on Jan. 23.
It’s unclear if he’s nonetheless employed with USPS.
In an announcement to WEAR, america Postal Service said that it’s cooperating with native regulation enforcement on the matter.
“The U.S. Postal Service takes the protection and well-being of our prospects and workers severely. The Postal Inspection Service, the regulation enforcement arm of the Postal Service, is actively investigating this challenge in partnership with native regulation enforcement. We will affirm that the person has been employed [since] 2025. The Postal Service doesn’t publicly touch upon personnel issues.”
