Mail Carrier Accused of Dumping Mail Pleads Not Guilty: Report

DECATUR, GA -- A former U.S. Postal Service worker caught on camera dumping letters into a ditch pleaded not guilty this week to charges that he unlawfully destroyed mail, according to local news reports.

Thomas Beaurem, 25, of McDonough was indicted Monday by a federal grand jury, the Associated Press reports.

The mail reportedly belonged to residents in the townhome community of Longview Walk.

A homeowner back in October recorded the mail carrier tossing bins of mail in a wooded area. The Postal Service found more than 4,500 pieces of correspondence at the site, news reports at the time said.

Read more: USPS probes claims of mail dumping in Decatur

HOA president Kellie Campbell took the video of the mail-tossing carrier and sent it to news stations.

"I sat there and recorded for about 5 minutes," Campbell told WSB-TV at the time. "And he continued to just grab more mail and continued to just toss it over the fence."

After a USPS investigation, the mail carrier was "no longer delivering mail," as Patch previously reported.

The pieces of mail that could be salvaged were delivered to homeowners, according to WXIA.

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