Reward offered for details in post office looting

The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is asking the public for information about looting reported May 31 and June 1, 2020, at multiple Chicago post offices. | U.S. Postal Inspection Service

U.S. Postal Service officials are offering a reward for information about people who looted several Chicago post offices over the weekend.

The U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced the reward of up to $10,000 Thursday for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the looters, the agency said in a statement.

The burglaries and mail theft occurred Sunday night and early Monday morning at the following post offices:

• 611 W. 63rd St.;
• 3933 W. North Ave.;
• 1240 N. Ashland Ave.;
• 6559 S. Ashland Ave.;
• 1419 W. Carroll Ave.; and
• 4601 S. Cottage Grove Ave.

Anyone with information is asked to call the postal inspection service at 877-876-2455 and reference case number 3083553.

The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is asking the public for information about looting reported May 31 and June 1, 2020, at multiple Chicago post offices.

The Ogden Park Post Office, 6559 S. Ashland, and several UPS stores were closed Wednesday in the aftermath of the looting.

Looting was reported throughout the city and suburbs over the weekend after access to downtown Chicago was restricted following protests that turned violent in the wake of the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd.

An estimated 2,000 people were arrested over the weekend in Cook County, according to Sheriff Tom Dart.

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