Man Tried To Steal Mail, Attacked Postal Inspector: Nassau Police

HICKSVILLE, NY — Two men were arrested early Monday morning after police say they tried to steal the contents of mailboxes, and one of them attacked an investigator.

According to police, Nassau County Police Department officers were assisting United States Postal Inspectors with an investigation into the theft of mail from the Hicksville Post Office. During the investigation, police say two men pulled up in a 2016 BMW around 4 a.m.

Romy Fabre, 26, of 233 Street, Queens, got out of the car, police said, and used a stolen Postal Service master key to steal the mail from the mailboxes in the post office.

Police say NCPD detectives and Postal Inspectors entered the post office and tried to place Fabre under arrest, but he began to violently resist. He slashed one of the Postal Inspectors with a sharp object, police said, cutting him multiple times. Police say Fabre was eventually subdued and arrested.

Detectives and Postal Inspectors then approached the car outside and arrested the driver — Jahki Hawkins, 22, of 154th Street, the Bronx — without incident, police said.

The Postal Inspector was taken to a hospital for cuts to his eye, face, leg and arm.

Fabre is charged with second-degree assault, third- and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, resisting arrest, second-degree criminal tampering, fifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property and petty larceny. Hawkins is charged with third-degree unlawful possession of a personal ID, fourth-degree criminal facilitation and fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property.

Both men are scheduled to be arraigned later today in First District Court in Hempstead.