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Aug 25, 2006 11:00 pm US/Central
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Stolen U.S. Mail Recovered At Geneva Home
Man Accused of Stealing Thousands of Dollars of Mail And Selling It on eBay
by Mike Parker
Geneva, Ill. (CBS) ―
A Geneva man may have stolen your mail and sold it on
eBay. As CBS 2's Mike Parker reports, the suspect is in jail accused of stealing tens of thousands of dollars worth of packaged merchandise.
Investigators raided this $300,000 Geneva home this morning. They arrested 49-year-old Mark David Hoggay and loaded an evidence van with bag after bag of merchandise they say was stolen from the U.S. mail.
"The value of things that he possessed is going to run well into the hundreds of thousands of dollars," said Kane County Sheriff Ken Ramsey.
The seized and bagged items included jewelry, DVDs from Netflix, compact dics, and valuable football and baseball cards.
According to investigators, Hoggay had been selling the stuff on the eBay auction Web site for at least two years.
Hoggay got his hands on the mail when his Bolingbrook company, New Breed Leasing, was repairing postal service equipment.
"The majority of the people at his company were honest," said postal inspector David Colen. "They found mail and returned it. Only through his position was he able to violate that position of trust."
As reporters hear so often, his neighbors say the man kept to himself.
"We were all shocked to see 17 police vehicles here this morning as I pulled out to drive to work," said neighbor Andrew Kold.
Hoggay is in the lockup tonight at the Kane County Sheriff's office. He'll face a judge and a bond hearing tomorrow morning at 8:30 on charges of theft and the Internet sale of stolen property.
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