Crime & Safety

Special Delivery? Post Office Supervisor Struck Employee, Police Say

Ernestine Stephens, 38, was charged with battery after striking a female employee across the face during an argument at the Tinley Park post office, police said.

Tinley Park Post Office supervisor Ernestine Stephens, 38, of the 4300 block of Kentucky Street, Gary, Ind., was arrested and charged with battery, police said.

Police said she struck a female employee across the face during an argument in the post office shortly before 6 p.m. Dec. 31. Police said the two had been arguing previously about the employee's friendship with a male co-worker. Stephens was arrested at the post office.

The employee had previously filed harassment charges against Stephens with the postmaster, police said.

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Acting Postmaster Marcus Neats had no comment on the incident.


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