Prosecutors allege more than $23 million was stolen through the activities of the five-person theft ring.
The owner said the mailman would always pet her German Shepherd. Stoli died after a battle with cancer at 10 years old.
Residents understood why their mail was no longer being delivered when a loose dog was in the neighborhood, but their frustrations grew when the dog left and they still weren't getting mail.
An undercover sting by Webster police has nabbed a Houston mailman in a wide-ranging fraud and theft investigation.
A community in the Champions area is left feeling hopeless after they say thieves have hit their cluster mailbox at least six or seven times in the last year.
Neighbors in Houston's Woodlands Acres neighborhood are worried because they say they don't get their mail daily.