MINNEAPOLIS – 9/8/26 – United States Attorney Daniel N. Rosen announced that Willie Roy Turner Jr., aka “J.S.B.” and “Little Willie,” 29, of Chicago, Illinois, along with five co-conspirators, has been indicted on one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, one count of bank fraud, one count of aggravated identity theft, and one count […]
LOS ANGELES – 9/11/26 – A Glendale man pleaded guilty today to conspiring to steal approximately 30 United States Postal Service (USPS) mail carrier vehicles as well as the mail inside them, including 100 credit and debit cards belonging to other people, some of which he then illegally used. Vegen Hartoonian, 46, pleaded guilty to […]
9/111/26 – Earlier today, a federal jury in Central Islip convicted Luann Middleton, a former United States Postal Service (USPS) employee, of wire fraud in connection with her repeated submission of false workers compensation forms to the United States Department of Labor (DOL), in which she claimed total disability, and thereby received approximately $40,000 per […]
Will Serve Concurrent 7½-Year Sentence for Bribing Postal Carrier to Deliver Marijuana PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that DeWhite Dawkins, aka Dwight Dawkins, “Twin White,” and Kaleem Fraites, 42, a Jamaican national who has been unlawfully residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced this afternoon to 115 months in prison by United States […]
AUGUSTA, Georgia: 9/10/26 – A Florida woman has been sentenced to prison for her role in a multi-state scheme to fraudulently obtain unemployment insurance benefits. The sentence was imposed by U.S. District Court Judge Dudley H. Bowen and announced by Margaret E. “Meg” Heap, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. Cheryl Galloway, 67, […]
Baltimore, Maryland – 9/10/26 – A Baltimore man is headed to federal prison for firearm and postal-service theft crimes. U.S. District Court Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Shykeem Fallin, 24, today, to four years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for possession of a firearm and ammunition by a prohibited person and […]
Bronx, NY – 9/9/26 – The U.S. Postal Inspection Service arrested Junior Javier Pujols Calderon, 27, of Bronx, NY, on September 3, 2026, for stealing mail from a blue collection box located in upper Manhattan. Postal inspectors began investigating thefts of mail in the area after a video clip circulating on social media showed Calderon […]
On July 27, 2026, in the Lincoln County, Wisconsin Circuit Court, Dawn Polka, former President of National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 778 (located in Merrill, Wisc.), was charged with one count of felony theft in a business setting totaling approximately $3,739, in violation of Wisconsin State Statutes 943.20(1)(b) and (3)(bf) and 939.50(3)(i). The […]
CINCINNATI – 9/8/26 – A federal grand jury has indicted Wendell Terrence Swan, 56, of Cincinnati, charging him with assaulting a federal employee. According to the indictment, on Aug. 5, Swan intentionally assaulted a United States Postal Service mail carrier while the victim was engaged in his official duties. Swan allegedly struck the mail carrier […]
ST. LOUIS – 9/8/26 – A St. Louis mail carrier has been accused of dumping at least 30,000 pieces of mail in vacant lots since 2024. Armond Paige, 54, was indicted on September 2 in U.S. District Court in St. Louis on one count of delay or destruction of mail by a postal employee. The […]