TRAFALGAR, Ind. (Feb. 8, 2015) — Johnson County detectives are looking for whoever is responsible for blowing up two mailboxes. The blasts happened outside homes on County Road 525 South and County Road 200 West late Friday night and early Saturday morning. The blasts were so strong they tore the mailboxes to shreds. Read more
Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that two former residents of Danbury were sentenced yesterday in Hartford federal court for participating in a conspiracy involving the theft of monies from the U.S. Postal Service. U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea sentenced TONY STERLIN CANTAVE, 34, to 13 months […]
PITTSBURGH – A highway contract route driver has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of theft of mail, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today. The one-count indictment, returned on Feb. 3, named April Kovach, 39, of Yatesboro, Pa. According to the indictment, on or about Oct. 8, […]
A 33-year-old U.S. Postal Service employee was on “a two-year meth bender” when he stole more than 30,000 pieces of mail bound for residents throughout much of Portland, said his defense attorney Thursday, just before a judge sentenced the carrier to three years in prison. John Paul Osburn grew up in eastern Oregon and had […]
ELK GROVE (CBS13) — Thieves are targeting mailboxes in search of tax documents to help them file fake returns and steal people’s tax refunds. Nearly a dozen cities have been hit in the past few weeks, and if the crooks go their hands on a W-2, they have everything they need to file a tax […]
On January 7, 2015, in the McCracken County, Kentucky Circuit Court, David Lynch, former President and Treasurer of National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 383 (located in Paducah, Ky.), was sentenced to three years of incarceration (suspended to 30 days in county jail while on work release) and a minimum of two years of […]
On January 21, 2015, in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, Athens Division, Cynthia Collins, former Secretary-Treasurer of American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Local 12 (located in Athens, Ga.), pled guilty to one count of embezzlement from a labor organization, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 501(c). The guilty plea follows […]
PITTSBURGH – 1.23.15 – A resident of Parker, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to two years probation, which includes three months home detention, and a $500 fine on her conviction of theft of mail by a Postal employee, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today. United States District Judge Nora Barry Fischer imposed the sentence […]
Just before 9:00 Saturday morning, two employees at the U.S. Post Office in Taylor Ridge were robbed at gunpoint, according to the Rock Island County Sheriff’s Office. Captain Darren Hart said details are still coming in and they are working on the scene. There was still yellow tape surrounding the building when we spoke with […]
1/23/15 – Baltimore, Maryland – U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Jeffrey L. Shipley, age 48, of Millersville, Maryland today to 20 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for stealing and destroying mail while employed as a postal employee. Judge Hollander also entered an order that Shipley pay $19,358.75 in […]