A serial mail thief in Florida has been sentenced to 10 years behind bars for stealing items from porches and mailboxes.
Federal prosecutors said in a news release that 26-year-old Yunior Blanco-Pedroso that the sentence followed his March guilty plea to mail theft and stolen mail possession.
Evidence in the case indicated that Blanco-Pedroso admitted committing 10 porch burglaries in 2020 in Miami and Coral Gables.
Investigators also say surveillance video showed that Blanco-Pedroso followed mail delivery trucks, then stole mail from people's boxes and front porches.
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When arrested, investigators found packages, mail and checks intended for other people in a blue BMW matching one seen on the video.
At the time, Blanco-Pedroso was on probation for a previous conviction for robbing a mail carrier, prosecutors said.
