The case caught my eye with the headline in the Oregon Live trumpeting: “Mail theft suspect in Portland made daring 13th-floor balcony escape, later arrested” and saying that the suspect’s apartment contained ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY POSTAL KEYS! But Michael John Peters is not the type of mail thief that I am accustomed to seeing in our investigations. Most of the check thieves that DarkTower investigates are street gang members and self-proclaimed Hip Hop artists who peddle their checks in Telegram channels. I wasn’t expecting the case to be about a college-educated white male who ran an art gallery in Hawaii!
https://mauiguide.com/michael-john-peters/ |
On his YouTube channel, Peters tells how he “reinvented himself” during COVID, creating a painting process he calls “Four Phases Painting” which is actually quite interesting!