DOL – On June 19, 2019, in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, Kelly Carter, former President of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 560 (located in Benton Harbor, Mich.), was charged in a one-count indictment for embezzling $7,130 in union funds, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 501(c). The […]
DOJ – 7/16/19 – John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SYBIL F. BUTLER, 57, of Norwalk, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to three years of probation for stealing federal annuity benefits. Judge Underhill also ordered Butler to pay full restitution and […]
DOJ – 7/16/19 – NEWARK, N.J. – A U.S. Postal Service (USPS) mail carrier was convicted today of conspiring to defraud the United States by getting paid to assist a drug dealer in receiving packages of marijuana through the mails, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. Fred Rivers, 47, of Newark, was convicted of one count […]
DOJ – 7/16/19 – United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Unterria Rogers, a 33 year old resident of Mobile, Alabama, was sentenced to 60 months in prison as a result of his conviction for use of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. On March […]
Doctor And Three Others In Bergen County Charged In $10 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme Allegedly Paid and Received Kickbacks in Connection with Medically Unnecessary Prescriptions for Pain Creams DOJ – 7/16/19 – NEWARK, N.J. – A doctor and three people associated with a pharmacy were charged today with their respective roles in defrauding the […]
CHICAGO (WLS) — Family members of a missing postal worker are planning a news conference Monday urging for her safe return. It’s been nine months since Kierra Coles was last seen on surveillance video leaving her home near 81st and Vernon in the Chatham neighborhood. Coles was pregnant at the time and due in April. There’s a […]
A U.S. Postal Service tractor-trailer tumbled off a busy South Jersey highway Friday morning, leaving it perched nearly upright off an overpass. The truck driver collided with a car in the northbound lanes of Interstate 295 in Mount Laurel Township, Burlington County, after 3 a.m., New Jersey State Police said. The big rig then went […]
USPS wants employees to hydrate before, during and after work, even if they don’t feel thirsty. USPS News Link – The Postal Service is reminding employees to stay safe during hot weather. You should hydrate before, during and after work, even if you don’t feel thirsty. Research shows you should drink at least 8 ounces of […]
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – After a months-long investigation, Springfield police arrested Eric Encarnacion-Medina outside the Belmont Avenue Post Office this week. Surveillance cameras were set up outside the State Street and Belmont Ave. post offices showed the Bronx resident using a key to open mailboxes and stealing the contents. The arrest has people thinking twice […]
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – While “neither rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night” is often used to describe the dependability of the U.S. Postal Service, a technical glitch apparently held up delivery to a Buffalo homeless shelter. The Little Portion Friary on Main Street went without mail delivery for two months. That is two months […]