HAMMOND – Yesterday, Kareim J. Coverson, 37 years old, of Calumet City, Illinois, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Phillip P. Simon after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud, announced Acting United States Attorney M. Scott Proctor. Coverson was sentenced to 41 months in prison, 2 years of supervised release, and […]
WILMINGTON, N.C. – 8/4/25 – A Fayetteville man pleaded guilty to misappropriation of postal funds and to making false entries and reports in U.S. Government records. According to court documents, Robert Raquan Patterson, 29, served as a sales and services distribution associate for the U.S. Postal Service, Evergreen Post Office. In this capacity, Patterson was […]
Defendant spent thousands of dollars in stolen proceeds at casinos BOSTON – 7/30/25 – The former Postmaster for the Seekonk Post Office pleaded guilty today to stealing over $19,000 through no-fee money orders. Bethany LeBlanc, 48, of Seekonk, pleaded guilty to one count of theft of government money. U.S. District Court Judge Leo T. Sorokin […]
7/31/25 – On Sunday, July 27, 2025, at approximately 7:30pm, Destiny Coles and two unidentified suspects arrived at the United States Post Office located in Lytle Creek. The suspects forced entry into several locked mailboxes at the post office and stole packages and mail. A witness took a picture of the suspect vehicle as it […]
Postal Employee Charged in Credit Card Theft Scheme 8/1/25 – North Bergen Police Chief Robert J. Farley Jr. has announced charges against two individuals in connection with a credit card fraud investigation. Eirin Novas, a U.S. Postal Employee, and Awilda Taveras-Bido of Newark, were charged with multiple offenses including Credit Card Theft, Fraudulent Use of […]
ST. LOUIS – 7/30/25 – A former U.S. Postal Service mail handler on Wednesday admitted committing pandemic fraud and stealing checks from hundreds of pieces of mail. Anthony Virdure II, 30, pleaded guilty to one count of mail theft and one count of wire fraud. On Dec. 1, 2023, U.S. Postal Inspectors were called to […]
Benjamin Gregory Shirley Assaulted Postal Employee Attempting to Obtain Fentanyl GRAND RAPIDS – 7/30/25 – U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan Timothy VerHey announced that Benjamin Gregory Shirley, age 41, of East Lansing, Michigan, was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for assaulting a postal employee. According to court records, Shirley arranged […]
Defendant spent thousands of dollars in stolen proceeds at casinos BOSTON – 7/30/25 – The former Postmaster for the Seekonk Post Office pleaded guilty today to stealing over $19,000 through no-fee money orders. Bethany LeBlanc, 48, of Seekonk, pleaded guilty to one count of theft of government money. U.S. District Court Judge Leo T. Sorokin […]
DETROIT –7/21/25 – Two men were sentenced today for armed robberies that targeted U.S. Postal Service (USPS) mail carriers, United States Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon, Jr. announced. Gorgon was joined in the announcement by Sean McStravick, Acting Inspector in Charge of the Postal Inspection Service’s Detroit Division. Sentenced were Michael Lamar Smith-Ellis, 31 of Detroit […]
On June 5, 2025, in the Hardin Circuit Court, Ninth Judicial Circuit for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Robert Hendrickson, former President of American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Local 5546 (located in Fort Knox, Ky.), was charged in a one-count indictment for theft by unlawful taking with a value greater than $10,000, but less than $1,000,000, […]