69-year-old disabled man’s stimulus check is stolen from his mailbox, Texas cops say

A man in Texas was arrested after police say he stole a coronavirus stimulus check out of a disabled man’s mailbox.

Wednesday night, deputies spotted a man walking down a New Caney street peering in mailboxes, police said in a Facebook post.

Deputies searched the man — later identified as 23-year-old Jason Dunn — and found two checks that were not his as well as methamphetamine, KTRK reported.

One check was for $400 from a local college, KHOU reported. The other was a $1,200 coronavirus stimulus payment that Dunn initially claimed belonged to his cousin, police said.

Deputies eventually determined that Dunn had stolen the stimulus check out of a 69-year-old man’s mailbox, police said. The man, who is disabled, had been expecting it, KPRC reported.

“He had been looking for it,” Constable Rowdy Hayden told KTRK. “He said the suspect did not have permission to have it, so we were able to place him in custody for narcotics as well as stealing the elderly gentleman’s stimulus check.”

They also located the college student who’d been waiting for the $400 check from Lone Star College, according to the outlet.

Dunn was arrested and charged with mail theft, a third-degree felony, and possession of a controlled substance, per jail records.

This story was originally published May 14, 2020 at 12:05 PM with the headline "69-year-old disabled man’s stimulus check is stolen from his mailbox, Texas cops say."