An image taken from a video security camera shows a Nashua mail carrier giving an armed suspect his set of keys during the alleged robbery last week on Blacksmith Way in Nashua.
Images captured by a neighbor who witnessed last week’s alleged robbery of a postal carrier in Nashua show two of the suspects and the vehicle in which they allegedly fled.
An image taken from a video security camera shows a Nashua mail carrier giving an armed suspect his set of keys during the alleged robbery last week on Blacksmith Way in Nashua.
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An image taken from a video security camera shows a Nashua mail carrier giving an armed suspect his set of keys during the alleged robbery last week on Blacksmith Way in Nashua.
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Images captured by a neighbor who witnessed last week’s alleged robbery of a postal carrier in Nashua show two of the suspects and the vehicle in which they allegedly fled.
Baraka Janvier, one of three suspects arrested in connection with last week’s armed robbery of a postal carrier in Nashua, has now been charged by federal authorities with one count of felony robbery.
Stephen Riggins, a U.S. Postal Service inspector, filed the complaint and accompanying affidavit Monday in U.S. District Court in Concord, in which he states that federal authorities arrested Janvier, 18, of Lowell, Mass., on a warrant following their investigation in conjunction with Nashua and Lowell police.
Janvier is currently in the custody of the state and is being held on preventive detention as his case proceeds in state court.
He was scheduled for a probable cause hearing on Tuesday, April 23, following his arraignment and bail hearing last week in Nashua district court.
The two other suspects, both males, were arrested two days after the robbery. Police aren’t releasing their names because they are juveniles, and they are referred to in court documents by their initials.
Riggins, the postal inspector, said in federal court documents that the investigation determined that an acquaintance of Janvier, who he knew from school, allegedly offered to pay Janvier $500 to steal a so-called “arrow key” — a universal pass key that allows postal carriers to unlock all the collection boxes in the city — and bring it to him.
Janvier and the juveniles are accused of driving to Nashua with the intent to steal an arrow key from a carrier. The robbery took place on Blacksmith Way, a short cul-de-sac near the Everett Turnpike’s Exit 5, where two of the suspects allegedly held the carrier at gunpoint and demanded his “keys to the city,” a reference to the carrier’s arrow key.
The carrier complied, and the suspects fled moments later. The carrier told police he wasn’t injured in the incident.
A neighbor told investigators he grew suspicious of the young men after seeing them wearing heavy clothing, hoods and face masks on a warm day, and noticing the suspect vehicle “driving very slowly through the neighborhood ... “ Two of the males “also entered and exited the suspect vehicle on several occasions for no apparent purpose,” Riggins wrote.
When the vehicle began to leave, the neighbor got into his own vehicle and followed it, taking photos and video of the suspects and the vehicle, which he provided to investigators, according to Riggins.
The images, including ones of the vehicle’s license plates, helped police direct their search to an address in Lowell where the family of one of the juveniles lives.
They were subsequently able to identify Janvier as a suspect, and took him into custody early the next morning.
