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Postal Service oversight agency fires data officer after San Diego sex-sting arrest

 ALEX RIGGINS

 

Harbor Police arrested Postal Regulatory Commission employee after citizen group set up sting accusing him of trying to meet teen for sex

Officials from the federal agency that oversees the U.S. Postal Service have fired their chief data officer after he was arrested Monday in San Diego on suspicion of attempting to meet an underage boy for sex.

Russell Rappel-Schmid, 52, was hired earlier this year as the first chief data officer of the Postal Regulatory Commission. He was in San Diego for a conference when San Diego Harbor Police Department officers arrested him, according to arrest records and his former employer.

Rappel-Schmid’s arrest — first reported locally by 10News on Tuesday — appeared to be the result of a sting carried out by the vigilante citizen group known as “People v. Preds.”

 

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