Star Distribution Received Over $10 Million Meant to Feed Children, Most Pocketed by Conspirators Two more defendants—Suleman Yusuf Mohamed and his brother Gandi Yusuf Mohamed—have pleaded guilty for their roles in the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme, announced Colin McDonald, Assistant Attorney General for the National Fraud Enforcement Division, and U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen […]
SACRAMENTO Calif. —4/28/26 – Monique Marie Gonzales Grado, 32, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez to four years in prison for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Eric Grant announced. As a part of her sentence, Gonzales Grado was also ordered to pay $82,142 in restitution […]
ATLANTA –4/30/26 – Two former U.S. Postal Service mail carriers, a former Alpharetta assistant bank manager, and a convicted felon face federal charges after participating in a scheme to steal valuable items from the mail, including a $4.9 million U.S. Treasury check. “Francina Sutton worked with two corrupt U.S. Postal Service mail carriers to steal […]
PORTLAND, Ore.—4/29/26 – A former Postal Service employee pleaded guilty yesterday for engaging in a scheme to steal money orders from the U.S. Postal Service. Jessica Alires, 46, of Nehalem, Oregon, pleaded guilty to misappropriation of postal funds. According to court documents, from September 2024 through December 2024, as a U.S. Postal Service employee in […]
EUGENE, Ore.—4/28/26 – A Burns, Oregon, man was sentenced to federal prison today for repeatedly stealing mail while working as a U.S. Postal Service employee at the Hines, Oregon Post Office. Patrick Wright, 44, was sentenced to 45 days in federal prison and two years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay over […]
ATLANTA – 4/27/26 – Maximo Fitzhugh has been sentenced to 10 and a half years in federal prison for a pair of violent crimes, one of which resulted in a gun battle in the Buckhead district of Atlanta. “After threatening to shoot up a women’s clinic, Fitzhugh held a postal worker at gunpoint and endangered […]
FRESNO, Calif. — 4/28/26 – Kyle Matthew Lisman, 30, of Bakersfield, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Thurston to five years in prison for wire fraud, possessing stolen mail and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Eric Grant announced. According to court documents, between January and July of 2023, Lisman devised a scheme […]
Pensacola, Florida – 4/28/26 – Divincent M. Madison, Jr., 25, of Pensacola, Florida, has been indicted in federal court for one count of delay or destruction of U.S. Mail, one count of theft of U.S. Mail by U.S. Postal employee, and one count of possession with intent to distribute marijuana. John P. Heekin, United States […]
TOPEKA, KAN. – 4/28/26 – A former employee at a Kansas post office pleaded guilty to illegally taking mail that was supposed to be delivered to customers. According to court documents, Gayli Harman, 44, of Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado, formerly of Manhattan, Kansas, pleaded guilty to one count of obstruction of mail. Harman worked for […]
Pensacola, Florida – 4/27/26 – Evan Aldric Harris, 29, of Evergreen, Alabama, was indicted by a federal grand jury charging him with theft of mail by a postal employee. John P. Heekin, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the charge today. Harris appeared for his arraignment in federal court before United […]