For the second time in a week a story of theft comes out of a town called Fremont. Previously I wrote about a 19-year-old serial thief who could spend serious time behind bars if he steals again. This story comes from Fremont, California.

A Fremont man was convicted of leading a theft ring and coercing two women to attack a 63-year-old U.S. Postal Service carrier with a stun gun. For his crimes he will spend the next 10 years of his life behind bars.

Mustafa Rahim, 29, supplied methamphetamine to his girlfriend Denae Hartsinck and her friend Jamie Salvo to get them to commit the stun-gun attack and other crimes. Hartsinck, 23, received a 41-month prison sentence. Salvo, 22, was ordered to serve two years.

They each were sentenced last week in a federal court.

Authorities said that Rahim ordered the assault last year so they could steal a post office master key, giving them access to mailboxes.

After the May 21 attack, the women fled in a stolen vehicle driven by Rahim. The trio then set the vehicle on fire.

Eleven days later, Hartsinck and Salvo were arrested when they crashed a stolen vehicle after leading California Highway Patrol officers on a chase.

Officers discovered evidence in the vehicle that linked the pair to the postal carrier attack and to an identity-theft and auto-theft ring led by Rahim. A few weeks later officers arrested Rahim.

Apparently Rahim ordered the women to steal vehicles and documents were found inside the vehicle about identity-theft crimes in San Leandro, Hayward and Oakland.

Rahim also sent the women into health clubs to steal house and car keys from lockers, authorities said.

This sounds like one bad apple. Maybe 10 years in the slammer will teach him to respect his fellow man!