SEQUIM – A suspected mail thief was caught red-handed just after midnight Tuesday after deputies responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle checking mailboxes on Olson Road in Sequim.
Deputies arrived and spotted a spray-painted black sedan slowly driving westbound on Olson Road, the driver shining a flashlight out the window. They stopped the vehicle on Hooker Road and contacted the driver, 39-year-old Brenda Fisher.
Deputies could see stacks of mail inside the vehicle. Fisher already had a warrant for theft and was taken into custody. A search warrant for the vehicle was granted and deputies found a total of 102 pieces of mail belonging to multiple people and locations in Sequim.
Among the letters were checks and debit/credit cards. Suspected heroin and meth were also found in the vehicle.
Fisher was booked for mail theft and possession of stolen property.
The seized mail is being processed by deputies and will be returned to the post office for delivery.