Redmond police recommended charges of mail theft and second-degree possession of stolen property on Aug. 5 as a result of a recent investigation of three subjects.

According to a Redmond Police Department (RPD) press release, on May 22, officers on a routine patrol contacted one female and two males in a vehicle parked in the Bear Creek Shopping Center parking lot at 17246 Redmond Way. While talking with them, officers noted fresh needle marks and a female tending to open wounds on her skin.

“Concerned for everyone’s safety, officers continued to talk with the three subjects, observing recently used drug paraphernalia. One of the men was unresponsive in the back of a very hot car. He eventually woke up, exited the vehicle and was given some water,” the release reads.

The female handed an officer a laptop she was holding and in the process, several pieces of paper fell outside the car. Officers noted it was mail and checks, none of the names matching the vehicle’s occupants.

The occupants were also seen with a cardboard box, also filled with papers. Suspecting theft, officers towed the car. After receiving a search warrant, the vehicle was searched and the following was discovered:

• 48 different items of mail located in a box inside the car

• Three items of mail in the rear floorboard

• A stolen check for $1,249 that had been tampered with, to change the “Pay to the Order of” name

• 67 different items of mail inside a box found in the trunk of the car

• Several used and uncapped syringes and heroin drug paraphernalia

Mail items were mostly from Bellevue, but there was also stolen mail and checks from Issaquah and Fall City.