Mail, identification cards, Social Security cards and other property belonging to more than 100 different people from all over the Bay Area were recovered by San Mateo police when officers arrested two people who were allegedly breaking into an apartment complex’s mailbox on the 3000 block of La Selva Street in the Los Prados neighborhood early Friday morning.
At about 1:01 a.m. Friday, Feb. 28, police were called to the location on the report of two people wearing masks breaking into the mailbox, getting into a U-Haul van and leaving the area, according to police.
Officers arriving in the area where able to quickly locate the U-Haul van and attempted to stop it. Instead, the driver fled the area, driving north on Highway 101. Officers followed the suspects into San Francisco where the van finally stopped on the 900 block of Florida Street. Two suspects, James Spearman, 38, of Antioch, and Erika Martinez, 42, of San Francisco, ran but were safely detained in handcuffs. Officers also located stolen property from an auto burglary that occurred in San Mateo approximately 30 minutes before the mail theft, according to police.
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