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An Odessa man was arrested late last week after a traffic stop turned into a drug bust. Timothy Daniel Degreer, 25, has been charged with Possession of a Dangerous Drug and Theft of Cargo.

According to an affidavit, on April 28, Degreer was pulled over in the 100 block of W 23rd Street by an officer with the Odessa Police Department for an expired registration. When the officer approached Degreer’s car, he saw a black bag on the passenger seat that contained syringes and cotton balls. Degreer reportedly admitted to the officer that he used the syringes to inject heroin. Police later found heroin and other stolen prescriptions in the car.

Additionally, while the officer was searching the vehicle, he found multiple shipping packages meant for other people. When questioned, the officer said Degreer admitted to stealing the packages from his job at UPS. Among the stolen items recovered were phones, cologne, jewelry, Beats headphones, Apple AirPods, purses, clothes, toys, ammunition, and collectibles.

A New York City man has pleaded guilty to charges for shooting a United Parcel Service worker while riding passenger in a stolen Mercedes-Benz, after the deliveryman took too long to parallel park his vehicle, officials announced.

Jahsheen Osbourne, a 21-year-old from Queens, pleaded guilty to attempted murder, among other charges, for the January 2020 “unprovoked shooting,” Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz’s office said in a press release Thursday.

Osbourne was sitting passenger inside the stolen car around 3:30 p.m. on Jan. 14, 2020 when he allegedly grew irate that the delivery man was taking too long to park, Katz said.

Safety starts with a headset and controllers in front of a computer screen at UPS. The company is using virtual reality to teach future drivers about potential dangers before they make their first delivery.

Paulo Delgado has been with the company for 25 years and said he’s seen it all behind the wheel.

“The distractions that you see are disturbing,” Delgado said. “It can go from shaving, eating, watching tv.”

Now, Delgado trains new drivers how to stay alert on their route by focusing on their driving, just as much as what’s going on around them.

A UPS delivery driver has been sentenced to prison after prosecutors said he used the job to stalk his Pennsylvania neighbors.

Thomas F. Wainman Jr., 52, was convicted on counts of stalking and defiant trespass in February.

Prosecutors said Wainman stalked residents by peering in their windows with spotlights, watching them while they were in their pool and following them home from the gas station.

Participants and beneficiaries in the pension plan of the United Parcel Service of America have refiled an Employee Retirement Income Security Act lawsuit against the company in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

The new complaint represents the plaintiffs’ second try in arguing their case. It closely represents their original complaint, filed in early 2020, but features some important changes.

The plaintiffs suggest that UPS pension plan fiduciaries committed multiple ERISA breaches while calculating the value of joint and survivor annuity benefits to be paid out of the company’s pension plan relative to the value of the plan’s standard single life annuity option. Plaintiffs in such cases say the defendants have failed to pay JSA benefits in amounts that are “actuarially equivalent” to a standard SLA benefit. Such actuarial equivalence is required by ERISA.

The first ruling in the case, filed in late August 2020, sided firmly with the UPS defendants in rejecting the lawsuit. Despite the complexity of the issues at hand, the decision numbered just 20 pages, and it focused exclusively on the fact that the plaintiffs did not exhaust all the potential administrative remedies, which the court determined they must first explore before litigation would be appropriate.