PFLUGERVILLE -- A postal worker is robbed at gunpoint and a KVUE employee is the only witness. The postal carrier was not hurt, but the robbers, both armed with handguns, have not been arrested.
It was about 1:30 p.m. Friday when a KVUE employee, who asked his name not be used, was on his way to work. He spotted two Hispanic males in their early 20's walking near a postal worker delivering mail at boxes on Sunflower Drive near Marigold Way in Pflugerville.
"I passed the mailman while keeping a close eye as to what was going on," said the witness. "I saw that they had made him get to the ground. They jumped in his van and took off to where they were approaching me."
The witness stopped and got the license plate.
"They quickly honked at me and sped around my car," said the witness.
He called 911 and tried briefly to follow them. In the meantime, the postal worker went to a nearby home to call for help.
"He was shaking and he couldn't hardly talk," said Bonnie Backmon, who answered the door. "He said, 'I, I, I, I need to call. I just got robbed. I need to call the post office. I need to call the police."
Backmon is a caregiver at the Eyhorn home. She said the postal carrier told them he had seen the two men at another set of mailboxes on Sunflower Drive.
"He had said hello to them," said Backmon. "Then he came down here, and by the time they walked down here they took his vehicle."
"I can confirm that we have had a carrier robbed at gunpoint," said Michael Sullivan, a U.S. Postal Inspection in Austin.
U.S. Postal Inspectors investigating the armed robbery say the carrier did nothing wrong.
"There's nothing in that vehicle that's worth one of our carrier's lives," said Sullivan. "There is protocol that they are not to confront or engage the robber. We will catch them another day, but we want to make sure our carrier is safe."
The vehicle the postal worker was driving is a 2006 Toyota Sienna Minivan, brown in color, with a Texas license plate 790-NSP. Anyone seeing this vehicle is asked to call police.
