The Antioch police Department on Wednesday announced the arrest of Joseph Malfitano, 34, for identity and mail theft.
At approximately 7:47 am on Tuesday, Antioch Police were dispatched to a suspicious occupied vehicle in the 2000 block of Eucalyptus Way. The reporting party advised dispatchers the suspect, later identified as Malfitano matched the description of a mail theft suspect they had seen on the “next door” application.
Officers contacted Malfitano and during a subsequent search of his person and vehicle found he was in possession of mail belonging to approximately 30 individual victims.
Malfitano was also in possession of an altered driver’s license bearing his photo but with a victim’s personal information. Malfitano was booked into the Martinez Detention Facility on the above listed charges.
There will be no further information released regarding this case at this time.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Antioch Police Department non-emergency line at (925)778- 2441. You may also text-a-tip to 274637 (CRIMES) using the key word ANTIOCH.
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He looks like a real winner. Get a job.
Good job APD. What a roach, can he be deported?
Identity theft penalty should be decided by the person that was most harmed by the theft. No limits on length of jail time or even death.
If neighborhoods are experiencing mail theft from individual mailboxes, there’s a device that could help monitor activity. It’s called Mail Chime, and it’s available from many places online. When the volume is left turned up loud, people can definitely tell when someone has opened the mailbox. At night, or after the mail has already been delivered and collected, that can be a good alert to go and check the cameras for activity, and possibly contact police. Just a few of these strategically scattered out through the neighborhood could really make a difference in tracking suspects.
I swear this guy looks like some b-list Hollywood actor that has been in a couple of movies or tv shows. I cant think of his name though.
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