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Escambia Postal Worker Arrested For Trying To Run Down A Child, FHP Says
January 1, 2026
The Florida Highway Patrol has arrested a postal worker on Wednesday for allegedly trying to run down a child with his USPS vehicle.
William White Jr, 41, was charged with felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, petit theft, and criminal mischief.
According to FHP investigators, the incident was sparked by a simple delivery error. White had reportedly dropped off a package at the wrong address on Kingfisher Way. The child, whose family lives at the residence, noticed the package was intended for a different neighbor.
In an effort to help, the child placed the package on his electric scooter and began riding toward the correct address. Troopers say that when White saw the child with the mail, he incorrectly assumed the 10-year-old was stealing the package.
Witnesses and investigators state that White then purposely steered the USPS vehicle toward the child. The boy managed to jump into a nearby yard just moments before the mail truck ran over his scooter.
The confrontation didn’t end there. After yelling at the child, White allegedly retrieved the mangled scooter from beneath his truck and placed it inside the USPS vehicle. When a family member of the child ran outside to confront the carrier, White fled the scene. He later threw the scooter into a yard on Blue Jay Way before continuing his route.
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8 Responses to “Escambia Postal Worker Arrested For Trying To Run Down A Child, FHP Says”
This is a tragic story of entitlement. I agree with above Charlotte above! This is more than a slap on the wrist and fine cenerio. Good God man.
All he had to do was come up beside the child and ask him what he was doing. He went way overboard on this, and that poor child will never forget this. I hope he gets fired, has to buy that child another scooter, a better one at that, has to go to anger management, and serve some time in jail. I think Bubba will teach him how to control his temper while in jail for awhile.
Good Lord. Poor kid was just trying to help and a Postal Pinhead got after him. I wouldn’t be surprised if USPS didn’t fire this crazy person. This is beyond mental!
Deadly Force against a ‘child’ on a scooter? He’s lucky that parent didn’t get ahold of him.
once he dropped it off unless it is intended to go back out, that package was no longer his concern. Jail 2 years think about it.
Would not have ended well for him if that was my child!!
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I’ll be the 1st to say here that “going postal” has made a comeback!!