A United States Postal Service mail provider was once robbed at knifepoint within the 4300 block of Bradley Lane in Chevy Chase at round 12:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Montgomery County Police advised ABC associate WJLA-TV {that a} male suspect in his 20s brandished a knife on the employee, stealing the employee’s e-book bag. 

The suspect then fled the scene in a close-by grey sedan with tinted home windows.

Police say the automobile was once in all probability a Lexus. Police additionally mentioned preliminarily that most effective non-public pieces had been taken within the assault.

No mail or USPS assets was once stolen, together with the “arrow” keys used to open blue assortment bins.

Investigations by means of Montgomery County Police and the United States Postal Inspection Service are ongoing.

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Three doorways down from the scene of the brazen sunlight robbery lives Suzan Murray, who has misplaced exams to blue field thieves.

“There’s numerous us in the community who have got stuck up within the robbery of letters. There are neighbors of ours who’ve had exams stolen within the tens of hundreds,” Ms. Murray advised WJLA-TV.

She additionally famous that she and her husband had had exams stolen price $7,000. They have since switched to FedEx for mailing exams.

“It’s surely an added value. I don’t know the way you start to deal with this downside. I simply really feel so unhealthy for our mailman,” Ms. Murray mentioned to WJLA-TV.

Fellow resident Reed Dewey, who has additionally misplaced mail to robbery, concurred in talking with The CW associate WDCW-TV.

“My middle is going out to the mail carriers. They are such devoted folks operating within the warmth and the chilly, so it’s in reality terrible,” Mr. Dewey advised WDCW-TV.