Findlay police investigate paper carrier assaults

June 22, 2004
Toledo Blade

FINDLAY - Police are investigating two incidents in which newspaper carriers were assaulted while doing their route.

Thursday, a woman was assaulted and knocked to the ground while delivering papers in the 200 block of East Wallace Street about 5 a.m.

Two days earlier, a young girl delivering papers in the 200 block of Lester Avenue was knocked to the ground by a man fitting the same description: a white male, 20 to 30 years old, 6 feet tall, with a medium build. He was wearing khaki shorts and a dark shirt on Thursday.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Findlay/Hancock County Crime Stoppers hotline, 419-425-TIPS.

Commentary:
Although the specific paper these carriers work for is not identified in this story, this is certainly a good opportunity to remind interested readers that the Findlay Courier has posted discriminatory signs banning CHL-holders.

The Dayton Daily News also disarms employees, and has had two carriers carjacked in the past few months.