{"id":2989,"date":"2021-12-11T19:43:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T19:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CAIiECSWl9O-_OZdlm44Hnrxg-4qFggEKg0IACoGCAow7s8BMNBIMLXUiQY"},"modified":"2021-12-11T19:43:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T19:43:04","slug":"fedex-driver-says-grief-made-him-toss-40k-worth-of-packages-into-ravine-the-daily-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=2989","title":{"rendered":"FedEx Driver Says Grief Made Him Toss $40K Worth of Packages Into Ravine &#8211; The Daily Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.thedailybeast.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k,h_450,w_800,x_0,y_101\/dpr_2.0\/c_limit,w_740\/fl_lossy,q_auto\/v1639249127\/4CEVVOZGPRE3LJ6CG7BSQX2KCA_is2jce\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"Mobiledoc\">\n<p>An Alabama FedEx driver who allegedly threw around 400 packages in a ravine told police officers he was grieving a family death, among \u201cother issues.\u201d The suspect, 22-year-old Deandre Rayshaun Charleston, told officers the death made him uninterested in delivering the packages, which had a total value of $40,000. A passerby later came across the packages while on a walking trail. \u201cIt appeared that he was very sorrowful for what he\u2019d done and just admitted he was having some hard times in his life and just made poor choices,\u201d Blount County Sheriff Mark Moon said Friday. Charleston was charged with five counts of felony cargo theft and faced five warrants on Friday. However, he wasn\u2019t in custody as of the news conference, as Moon said he was \u201cdelivering packages for another company.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"ReadItAtLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/2021\/12\/fedex-driver-distraught-over-family-death-charged-with-dumping-of-hundreds-of-packages-in-ravine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>Read it at <\/span><span class=\"ReadItAtLink__name\">AL.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Alabama FedEx driver who allegedly threw around 400 packages in a ravine told police officers he was grieving a family death, among \u201cother issues.\u201d The suspect, 22-year-old Deandre Rayshaun Charleston, told officers the death made him uninterested in delivering the packages, which had a total value of $40,000. A passerby later came across the packages while on a walking trail. \u201cIt appeared that he was very sorrowful for what he\u2019d done and just admitted he was having some hard times in his life and just made poor choices,\u201d Blount County Sheriff Mark Moon said Friday. Charleston was charged with&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut-cbd-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}