Chicago man charged for rerouting UPS mail

CHICAGO — A man has been charged in an astonishing scheme that temporarily changed the address for the global headquarters of shipping giant United Parcel Service to his tiny garden apartment in Chicago, resulting in thousands of pieces of mail meant for UPS executives and other employees being delivered to his doorstep.

A criminal complaint charging Dushaun HendersonSpruce, 24, with theft of mail and fraud was unsealed Tuesday, records show. He is in custody pending a detention hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Gilbert next week, when prosecutors have said they will argue he should be held as a risk to flee.

When confronted Jan. 25, Henderson-Spruce at first agreed to talk to federal agents but “terminated the interview” when he was asked why he submitted the change-of-address form for UPS, according to the complaint.

According to the charges, Henderson-Spruce, who briefly worked as a package handler for UPS in 2012, submitted a written change-of-address form on Oct. 26 requesting that the company’s headquarters address at 55 Glenlake Parkway NE in Atlanta be changed to 6750 N. Ashland Ave. — his one-bedroom apartment in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood.

Henderson-Spruce did not identify himself on the onepage form. At first, the initials “HS” were written on the signature line, but the initials were then scratched out and replaced with “UPS,” according to the charges.

It wasn’t until Jan. 16 — nearly three months after the address change — that a UPS security coordinator caught on to the setup and notified postal inspectors, court records show.