A 20-year-old Los Angeles man was arrested Tuesday after police say they found stolen checks from four different California counties and a Nevada county inside the vehicle he was driving.
Anthony Garcia was arrested on suspicion of possessing stolen property, possessing burglary tools and identity theft and booked into Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility in Banning, according to a Beaumont Police news release.
Police say that shortly after 11:30 a.m., they stopped a vehicle at Interstate 10 and Singleton Road in Calimesa and discovered a number of checks inside.
The checks, they say, were not addressed to Garcia. They say Garcia admitted to driving around various cities and breaking into mailboxes to obtain the checks.
The checks — worth about $31,000 — involved victims from Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and Kern Counties as well as Henderson, Nevada, according to officials.
Police say the department’s Multiple Enforcement Team is working with the United States Postal Inspector and the United States Attorney General’s office to pursue federal charges.
The Beaumont Police Department is asking anyone with information about the case to call 951-769-8500.
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