Two men arrested in Clovis Post Office robbery, stolen mail recovered

Two Southern California men are in custody after Clovis police say a February robbery at the Clovis Post Office led detectives to a Los Angeles home, where they recovered more than 200 pieces of stolen mail from across California.

Clovis police identified the arrested suspects as 24-year-old Tsaj Peters and 23-year-old Nelson Cruz. Both face robbery and conspiracy charges in a case that began just after 5 p.m. on February 10, 2026, at the post office at Bullard and Minnewawa avenues. Police said the suspects targeted a Postal Service employee, fled with boxes of stolen mail, and got away in a dark-colored car. No weapons were used and no injuries were reported.

Investigators said at least three suspects were involved in the robbery. Months later, detectives served a search warrant at a Los Angeles home and recovered the stolen mail, a haul that police say stretched beyond Fresno County and included mail from throughout the state. Clovis police credited the Los Angeles Police Department Metropolitan Crime Impact Team and ATF task force, along with the United States Postal Inspection Service, for helping work the case.

For Clovis residents, the case is a reminder that a mail crime can quickly turn into a wider financial and identity problem. Stolen mail can include checks, bills, legal notices and identity documents, and even a single missing envelope can create headaches that last long after the robbery itself. Anyone who has had mail interrupted should watch bank and credit card accounts, review statements for unfamiliar activity, and keep an eye out for missing important documents.

The Postal Inspection Service, the law enforcement and security arm of the United States Postal Service, investigates postal robberies, mail theft and identity theft. The agency says more than 1,200 postal inspectors enforce roughly 200 federal laws, and from 2018 through 2023, postal inspectors arrested almost 9,000 suspects for theft of mail and packages. That scale underscores why mail theft is treated as more than a nuisance. It is a federal crime with real consequences for everyday life.

Clovis has seen that pattern before. In 2022, police said the first two months of the year brought 132 mail-theft reports, up from 35 during the same stretch in 2021. In 2025, stolen mail from more than 100 Clovis addresses was found after another police pursuit. Against that backdrop, the arrests of Peters and Cruz close one major chapter of a case that reached from a Clovis curbside mailbox to a Los Angeles search warrant and back to the security of local mailboxes.