Two residents from Katy are in jail in Colorado, facing 51 charges related to a mail theft operation.
Brevin Pogue, 27, and Dayana Amador Enamorado, 25, are both held on $100 million cash bonds in Douglas County, Colorado. Their charges include money laundering, car theft, theft, and burglary.
According to court records, police in Parker, Colorado, caught the pair using surveillance. They were seen emptying blue mailboxes and cluster boxes at several post offices around Denver one night in June.
Police acted after getting several complaints about mail theft. They put a tracking device in an envelope inside a mailbox and set up cameras. The tracker showed Pogue and Amador Enamorado moving from one post office to another.
Between June and August, police searched a hotel room and an Airbnb in Denver where the pair stayed. They found large amounts of stolen mail, $70,000 in cash, 577 stolen checks, special USPS keys to open mailboxes, and a notebook with storage unit addresses where money was kept.
During the investigation, police also contacted a postal inspector in the DFW area, who was looking into checks stolen from the mail and sold online. A search warrant in Harris County suggested Pogue was involved in this too.
After their arrest, Pogue was heard on a jail call asking a family member to remove money from their storage unit.
Officials found out that they had storage units in Denver, Tempe, and Katy. A search of the Denver unit turned up stolen mail, 100 grams of cocaine, marijuana, and about $10,000 in cash. Nothing significant was found in Tempe.
In Katy, at a storage unit on Clay Road, authorities found two laptops, ripped envelopes, and some keys, but no money.
Surveillance video later showed two women with gardening shears approaching the unit around the time of the jail call, but it was unclear if they managed to get inside.