MILTON, Ga. — Milton police said they’ve found several mailboxes recently stolen from neighborhoods across the city.
Channel 2′s Bryan Mims told you last week about a rash of mailbox thefts in recent weeks. Mailboxes were ripped off their posts and carried away.
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Police said they’ve found the mailboxes about 30 miles north in a gated community called Big Canoe.
Investigators are still working to determine who stole the mailboxes and why.
“It’s happened to us twice already,” homeowner Marcus Franco. “So it’s not going to happen again.”
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Mims first met Franco last week when he was working to encase his new mailbox in bricks after someone stole his old ones.
In Franco’s case, the thieves left the mail on the ground. Police say four mailbox were reported stolen that last weekend in January some time between late Saturday night and Sunday morning.
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Three of those have now been recovered in a heap along a lake in Big Canoe, which is in Pickens County. Someone saw the mailboxes and called the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office, who in turn, called police.
One of the mailboxes still had mail inside.
Milton police said it’s unclear why their mailboxes were stolen in the first place, and why they ended up in Big Canoe.
Police have released surveillance video of a person they are calling a person of interest.
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