A man from California was arrested in Scottsdale, Arizona, on felony charges after US Postal Inspectors caught him stealing mail, including unvoted mail-in ballots, from a USPS collection box.
The suspect, 26-year-old Richard Anthony Ramos Jr. of Stockton, California, was arrested on July 21 with several ballots in his car.
Notably, the Primary elections in Arizona were also held on July 21.
The scheme reportedly involved using a cardboard box into the collection bin to trap outgoing mail, which he would then fish out.
It is unclear whether his target was the mail-in ballots and what he intended to do with them.