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While some newspaper deliverymen save their clients from burning buildings, others treat the people they deliver the news to rather differently.

A Washington Post deliveryman is accused of stealing nearly $100,000 in mail from residents of a gated Northern Virginia community, D.C. Crime Stories reports.

Residents along his newspaper route in a Haymarket neighborhood started complaining about their outgoing mail being stolen. Missing items included nearly $100,000 in personal checks, cash, gift cards, coins and personal letters, according to court papers.

A hidden camera was installed, D.C. Crime Stories reports, and 31-year-old Robert E. Bell III was allegedly seen tampering with mailboxes and stealing the contents of letters. Bell, a paper deliveryman for four years, was charged with mail theft and destruction of letter boxes.