NC postal worker charged with pocketing handgun and destroying other mail in Charlotte

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Demarkis Houston was paid to sort the mail. He was arrested, prosecutors say, for pocketing the heat. The 30-year-old Charlotte postal worker faces up to 20 years in prison on charges that he stole a 9mm pistol being shipped through the mail last year. Houston made his initial hearing in federal court on Friday in Charlotte. He was arrested Thursday on charges of theft of mail, mail destruction and possession of a stolen firearm. If convicted, Houston faces a combined maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $750,000 fine. Mail theft has become an epidemic across the Char...