Stunning UPS Driver kept calm after carjacking and police chase

San Jose police shooting: Abducted UPS driver hailed for thwarting carjackers during chase

The Mercury News
By ROBERT SALONGA
PUBLISHED: February 15, 2019

Matthew O’Connor, a spokesman for UPS, declined to identify the driver or comment on his actions, but said the company was providing support for him and for other employees who work with him. “We’re giving our driver some privacy after yesterday’s incident, and we’re offering grief counseling to the driver and our other employees in the area,” he said.

SAN JOSE — A UPS driver abducted during a carjacking on Thursday is being lauded for having nerves of steel.

The armed carjackers seized his delivery truck and forced him to drive it, with law enforcement officers in pursuit. But he drove slowly so that the police could keep up and then, in an attempt to derail his captors’ escape, purposely hit the metal spikes officers had placed on the road.

“When you are accosted, taken at gunpoint, and made to drive, like something that comes out in the movies, you can’t train for the calmness that man had,” San Jose Police Chief Eddie Garcia said.
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San Diego Marine Honored After Saving UPS Driver

San Diego Marine honored for saving UPS driver's life
CBS 8 News
By Abbie Alford, Reporter
January 27, 2018

Staff Sgt. Vuong said he was just upholding his Marine pledge of honor, courage and commitment.

SAN DIEGO (NEWS 8) – A special honor Friday for a San Diego Marine who was in the right place at the right time to save a life.

Staff Sergeant Hai Vuong Rushed into action when two semi-trucks collided on a San Bernardino freeway last November – pulling one of the drivers to safety.

Staff Sgt. Vuong was honored with the Liberty Mutual Insurance Lifesaver award for his heroic actions. “I just happened to be there at the right time and the right place,” he said.

Staff Sgt. Vuong was driving on Interstate-15 in San Bernardino with his family when the two semi-trucks collided. He was able to safely pull over and rescue one of the drivers.

Vuong said he could smell fuel leaking into the cab and feared it could explode. The driver had a gash on his head was bleeding.
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Ex-UPS Employee Admitted Stealing Medications From Disabled Veterans

Former UPS employee admits to stealing prescription meds meant for veterans
MLIVE
Barton Deiters
June 1, 2015

In court on Thursday, May 28, Leiber asked Wysocki about the meaning of Memorial Day, which had occurred a few days prior and described the crime as a "tremendous insult" to those who served their country.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A former United Parcel Service employee has confessed to stealing $3,350 in prescription medication destined to be delivered to a veterans' hospital. Jonathan Justin Wysocki, 28, confessed to taking methadone pills from the UPS hub in Wyoming on at least 10 different occasions between Sept. 1 and Oct. 17 that were destined for the Battle Creek Veterans Affairs Medical Center. "I was in a very deep depression,"

Wysocki told Kent County Circuit Court Judge Dennis Leiber during a sentencing hearing last week. "I'm sorry." read more here

Police Say Medication Sent to Veterans Stolen by UPS Employee

UPS employee stole military veterans' pain medication, police say 
WSOCTV News
By Dave Faherty
April 29, 2015

HICKORY, N.C. — Veterans suffering illnesses and pain reported never receiving their medication. Police believe a UPS employee, trusted to deliver the medications, stole them.

Police said the thefts happened at a UPS distribution center in Hickory. Several veterans in the Hickory area said they are outraged. Police said the worker looked for packages from the Veterans Administration and shook them to see if it sounded like pills were inside.

Police said someone stole $36,000 of pain medication during the last six months. "It's a little bit shocking to hear somebody would do that,” said veteran Eddie Gee. "I think it is crazy.

You put trust in these people to deliver your packages,” said veteran Mike Holley John Laughter did two tours in Vietnam. He now has difficulty getting around and needs the medication for a degenerative back problem.

He said he hasn't gotten his pills three times from the VA during the last six months.
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Ex-employee sues UPS Fired for tending sick son?

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Members of the Calhoun family, clockwise from top left, wife Angela, husband Michael, and Elizabeth, 15, Christopher, 10, and Daniel, 3, pray before lunch last week. Calhoun says he was fired for missing too much work caring for an ill Daniel.

Ex-employee sues UPS
Fired for tending sick son?
Michael Calhoun, a 40-year-old father of five, says that UPS, a company he'd worked at for three years, fired him in the fall when he missed too much time from work to care for his sick sons. UPS disputes Calhoun's claims.

ST. PETERSBURG

Days after his youngest son survived a heart transplant, Michael Calhoun made sure he was the first one to cradle the boy in his arms.

It was May 2008, and after four months of waiting, doctors had finally found a new heart for 1-year-old Daniel, who along with his two other brothers suffers from a rare heart-related disease called Barth syndrome.

But his son's surgery wasn't the only thing on Calhoun's mind. Amid a year that involved moving across the country, finding new schools and dealing with three chronically ill children, Calhoun had another worry.

Things weren't going so well at work.

Calhoun, a 40-year-old father of five, says that UPS, a company he'd worked at for three years, fired him in the fall when he missed too much time from work to care for his sick sons.

He filed a civil lawsuit last month in Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court, claiming that the company violated his rights under the Family Medical Leave Act and committed disability discrimination.

"There was a change in their attitude toward me when I started taking off time under FMLA," Calhoun said. "We never thought in a million years that I'd be fired."

UPS disputes Calhoun's claims.
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Exemployee sues UPS