ALBANY, NEW YORK – 8/14/23 – Eunice Ting, age 69, of Watervliet, New York, was sentenced on Friday to 1 year of probation, to pay a $10,000 fine, and to pay full restitution for making a false statement to obtain benefits from the United States Department of Labor, Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs. United States […]
GREAT FALLS — 8/17/23 – A Great Falls woman who transported mail admitted today to possessing stolen mail and wire fraud charges after depositing checks she had overwritten with her name, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said. Jacqueline Rose Hydock, 33, pleaded guilty to possession of stolen mail and wire fraud. Hydock faces a maximum of […]
FLORENCE, SOUTH CAROLINA — 8/17/23 – Tiffany McFadden, 40, of Brooklyn, New York, and Port St. Lucie, Florida, was sentenced to more than 3 years in federal prison for leading a multi-million-dollar PPP fraud scheme out of South Carolina while working as a U.S. Postal Service employee. McFadden was charged in the District of South […]
8/17/23 -A Marion, Iowa man, convicted in 2021 for forging and counterfeiting over $250,000 in postage meter stamps and violating export laws while operating his home eBay business, will not be allowed to export products for seven years. The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security, which administers and enforces federal export regulations, made […]
SAN DIEGO – 8/11/23 — Former U.S. Postal Service mail carrier Tracy Rumley of El Cajon was sentenced in federal court this morning to five years of probation and 200 hours of community service for stealing mail from customers on her postal route in the Santee area of San Diego. When imposing sentence, U.S. District […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio – 8/11/223 – A grand jury has indicted two more Central Ohio men for crimes related to four new, separate armed robberies against U.S. Postal carriers. Cameron D. Newton, 19, of Westerville, and Thierno S. Bah, 20, of Columbus, were each charged in a superseding indictment returned on Aug. 10. Their case is […]
MADISON, WIS. – 8/10/23 – Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Joshua P. Copas, 38, Cumberland, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty today to one count of theft of mail while a U.S. Postal Service employee and was sentenced to four years of probation by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. […]
ST. LOUIS – 8/9/23 – U.S. District Judge John A. Ross on Wednesday sentenced a St. Louis County, Missouri man who bought and re-sold checks stolen from the mail to 10 months in prison. Dennis Cooperwood Jr., 19, of Country Club Hills, admitted being caught by St. Louis County Police in possession of about 179 […]
On July 17, 2023, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, Benton Ryals, Jr., former Financial Secretary of National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 1437 (located in Laurel, Miss.), was sentenced to six months of home confinement and three years of probation. He also was ordered to pay $32,936 […]
Montgomery, Alabama – 8/9/23 – On August 8, 2023, a federal judge sentenced John Eugene Dibello, 41, from Pasadena, Texas, to 43 months in prison for conspiracy to commit mail and bank fraud and the separate offense of aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Sandra J. Stewart. In addition, the judge also ordered that […]