Loxahatchee Rural Letter Carrier Cliff Richards Photo: Edith B. Roundtree
Loxahatchee Rural Letter Carrier Cliff Richards is credited not only with saving the life of his customer, but in providing information that led to the arrest of thieves who had broken into the customer’s home.
Richards, who has delivered the same route for 26 years, was on his appointed rounds when he found Customer Bruce Arentz on the ground in front of his house.
Arentz had returned from the store and surprised four thieves inside his home. Two attacked Arentz, knocking him to the ground and kicking him in the head. Arentz was able to dial 9-1-1 before a burglar ripped the cell phone from his hand. The burglars sped out of the driveway, nearly broadsiding Richards’ LLV as he pulled up to the mailbox.
“Bruce’s son yelled out the front door ‘that car, that car’ so I quickly figured out what he meant and got a description of the vehicle,” Richards said. “I tried to get the license tag number, but couldn’t. I had noted the direction that the getaway vehicle had fled.”
Palm Beach Sheriff Deputies arrived, and thanks to information provided by Richards, the four thieves were caught and arrested. Arentz went to the hospital, but upon his release, said that he was confident that stolen property recovered would be returned to him, as well as to neighbors whose homes also had been burglarized that day.
“Thanks to Cliff’s quick and decisive actions, a burglary ring has been stopped dead in its tracks,” Arentz said. “I can’t offer enough thanks to express my gratitude, and that of untold others, who were victimized by these thugs. The spirit of service to the community instilled and fostered by postal employees lives strong in Loxahatchee!”
Richards, who has delivered the same route for 26 years, was on his appointed rounds when he found Customer Bruce Arentz on the ground in front of his house.
Arentz had returned from the store and surprised four thieves inside his home. Two attacked Arentz, knocking him to the ground and kicking him in the head. Arentz was able to dial 9-1-1 before a burglar ripped the cell phone from his hand. The burglars sped out of the driveway, nearly broadsiding Richards’ LLV as he pulled up to the mailbox.
“Bruce’s son yelled out the front door ‘that car, that car’ so I quickly figured out what he meant and got a description of the vehicle,” Richards said. “I tried to get the license tag number, but couldn’t. I had noted the direction that the getaway vehicle had fled.”
Palm Beach Sheriff Deputies arrived, and thanks to information provided by Richards, the four thieves were caught and arrested. Arentz went to the hospital, but upon his release, said that he was confident that stolen property recovered would be returned to him, as well as to neighbors whose homes also had been burglarized that day.
“Thanks to Cliff’s quick and decisive actions, a burglary ring has been stopped dead in its tracks,” Arentz said. “I can’t offer enough thanks to express my gratitude, and that of untold others, who were victimized by these thugs. The spirit of service to the community instilled and fostered by postal employees lives strong in Loxahatchee!”
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