Kmart post office in Carson robbed at gunpoint

A Carson City postal worker was uninjured in the armed robbery of the Kmart post office about 3 p.m. Sunday.

Postal clerk Michael Souza was forced at gunpoint into the back room of the Kmart Super Center post office according Sergeant McKissick of the Carson City Sheriff's Department. The suspect arrived at the post office near closing time. Souza pulled the metal partition down half way to indicate to other customers that this would be the last customer.

Souza was the only postal worker present at the time.

The suspect drew a gun and forced Souza into the back room where he bound his hands and feet with duct tape. The suspect then took the cash drawer, escaping through a rear exit which leads to Kmart's main parking lot.

The amount in the drawer has not been determined.

Souza managed to crawl to the front of the office where passers-by assisted him.

The robber is described as a 400-pound white male adult in a light-colored shirt wearing some type of hat. He apparently had the cash register drawer in his possession when he left the building.

Assaulting a postal worker is a Federal offense, and the case has been turned over to the U.S. Postal Service.