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A United States Postal Service worker is facing several charges after allegedly trying to run over a small child in his mail delivery truck.
The incident began when William White delivered a package to the wrong house in Escambia County, Florida, on December 27, 2025. A 10-year-old boy, whose family owned the home, noticed that the package had been delivered to the incorrect address.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the boy — who has not been named publicly by authorities — then took the piece of mail and put it onto his electric scooter so that he could drop it off at the right house. However, when White, 41, saw the child with the package, he thought that he was stealing it.
“White then purposely drove the USPS vehicle towards the child and ran over the scooter,” the FHP report read, per the Pensacola News Journal. “The child was able to get into the nearby yard prior to the scooter being hit.”
White reportedly got out of his vehicle, took the scooter, and put it on his own mail truck, allegedly yelling at the child prior to driving away. A relative of the boy, who seemingly witnessed some of the situation, then followed the USPS truck, which prompted White to ditch the scooter at another nearby resident’s property.
While the boy was not seriously injured, the FHP did confirm that his ankle had been hurt in the attack.
On Wednesday, December 31, 2025, White was arrested. He has since been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon (without the intent to kill), damage to property/petit theft (of items worth $200 and under) and criminal mischief. White was booked into the Escambia County Jail around 10:45 a.m. on Wednesday and was released later that day just before 6:30 p.m. His total bond was listed as $5,500.
“This isn’t just a simple, ‘Oops,’ crash with a 10-year-old in the road,” FHP Captain Jason King explained in an interview with ABC affiliate WEAR. “This is an intentional act by a United States postal worker.”
“It’s a 10-year-old on a scooter, it’s not a normal porch pirate running up snatching packages that you just dropped off,” King continued. “It’s amazing what a small conversation would do in a situation rather than jumping straight to force, use of force…or really escalating the situation way past where it should have been.”
Following the incident, the U.S. Postal Service released a statement confirming that White had been employed there since 2025 but declined to provide further details on the matter.
“The U.S. Postal Service takes the safety and well-being of our customers and employees seriously,” the statement read. “The Postal Inspection Service, the law enforcement arm of the Postal Service, is actively investigating this issue in partnership with local law enforcement … The Postal Service does not publicly comment on personnel matters.”
As of December 2024, the Action Network ranked Florida the third “riskiest state for porch piracy” with a 13.1 percent risk for packages being stolen, per the Sarasota-Herald Tribune. Texas ranked number one with a nearly 30 percent risk, while North Carolina ranked second with just under 15 percent risk.
