Bangor, Maine: 1/24/18 – United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Amanda K. Wentzell, 26, of Augusta, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr., to three months in prison and three years of supervised release for stealing mail when she was a U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee. […]
Anchorage Man Charged with Stealing Cell Phones from U.S. Mail and Being a Felon in Possession of Firearm Anchorage, Alaska – U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that an Anchorage man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for obstructing U.S. mail parcels and stealing cell phones from the packages, as well as being […]
DOJ – 1/17/18 – John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that BERNARD HARRIS, 33, of Bridgeport, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for participating in two fraud schemes. According […]
Defendant took mail home rather than delivering it BOSTON – A former Fitchburg postal employee pleaded guilty today in federal court in Worcester to obstruction of mails. Stephen Lehto, 37, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of obstruction of mails. U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge David H. Hennessy scheduled sentencing for April 13, 2018. While […]
1/17/18 – A mail carrier from North Olmsted was charged with one count of willful obstruction of the passage of mail, law enforcement officials said. Alaina Chalkley, 36, took 24 pieces of first-class mail, 17 gift cards, 14 tobacco mailers, 694 pieces of undelivered mail and an envelope containing lottery tickets worth $5. This took […]
On December 18, 2017, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Lonzell Moore, former President of American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Local 1730 (located in Des Plaines, Ill.), was sentenced to three years of probation and he was ordered to serve 200 hours of community service. He was also ordered […]
CAMDEN, NJ – 1/5/18 – Two sisters here used false identities to cash IRS refund checks worth more than $50,000, federal authorities allege. Cassandra and Ramonita Flores, both of Camden, were part of a ring that prepared more than 3,300 bogus tax returns that yielded federal tax refunds averaging about $6,000 each, according to a […]
Anchorage Man Charged with Stealing Cell Phones from U.S. Mail and Being a Felon in Possession of Firearm Anchorage, Alaska – U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that an Anchorage man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for obstructing U.S. mail parcels and stealing cell phones from the packages, as well as being […]
12/19/17 – A U.S. postal worker was sentenced to 97 months in prison for his role in a stolen identity refund fraud conspiracy, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Charles E. Peeler for the Middle District of Georgia. Harold Coley was convicted by a […]
Ocala, Florida – 12/15/17 – Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that a federal jury in Orlando today found Susan J. Gissy (54, Crystal River) guilty of one count of theft of government funds and two counts of concealing a material fact in connection with the receipt of workers compensation benefits. She faces […]