Jeff
Fusco/Stringer
·
Feng Chen, a
31-year-old New York man, was arrested Tuesday and charged with theft for
allegedly taking stimulus checks from mailboxes.
·
Police say they found
him searching through mailboxes in the Sunset Park neighborhood of
Brooklyn.
·
When he was arrested,
Chen was carrying stimulus payments "totaling more than $12,000, credit
cards, opened envelopes and letters bearing the names of various individuals
and mail addresses," police said.