LONG VIEW, N.C. – 10/01/18 – Officials said a postal worker has been fired after dumping more than 160 pieces of mail into a dumpster at a Long View recreation center. Police said the worker threw away the mail from northwest Long View last week. Officers climbed into the dumpster to retrieve the mail, which […]
Postal Service Contract Carrier Sentenced For Theft Of Government Money Defendant took over $90,000 by forging signatures DENVER – 9/24/18 – Jimmie Dean Korf, age 49, of Weldona, Colorado, was sentenced late last week by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Marcia S. Krieger for theft of $92,579 as a Postal Service Highway Contract supplier in […]
Mail Carrier Charged With Accepting Bribes To Deliver Parcels Containing Drugs And Conspiring To Defraud The United States NEWARK, N.J. – 9/24/18 – A U.S. Postal Service (USPS) mail carrier was indicted today on charges that he accepted cash bribes in return for intercepting and delivering parcels containing illegal narcotics and conspiring to defraud the […]
Six Paterson, New Jersey, Men Charged with Stealing $300,000 in Checks from Dozens of Mail Collection Boxes NEWARK, N.J. – 9/24/18 – Six Paterson, New Jersey, men have been charged with taking part in a scheme to break into U.S. Postal Service (USPS) mail collection boxes throughout northern New Jersey and steal the mail—particularly, checks—inside, […]
On September 12, 2018, in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, Spartanburg Division, Dana Quinn Roush, former President of American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Local 403 (located in Spartanburg, S.C.), was charged with one count of embezzlement in the amount of $10,089, in violation of 29 U.S.C 501(c). The charge […]
9-18-18 – Federal postal inspectors promised a stepped-up effort to secure the U.S. Postal Service’s iconic blue collection mailboxes after someone targeted four of them in the Rochester area in a destructive rash of break-ins. “We urge folks who may have used those mailboxes to be vigilant,” warned Postal Inspector Raymond Williams on Tuesday. The […]
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – 9/17/18 – United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced Friday, September 14, 2018 three indictments of United States Postal Service employees. JACQUELINE M. BATISTE, a/k/a/ JACQUELINE BATISTE FRANCOIS (“BATISTE”), age 47, of Harvey, Louisiana, was indicted for Misappropriation of Postal Funds. BRIA DAVIS (“DAVIS”), age 25, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was indicted for Theft of Mail […]
U.S. Attorney Announces the Indictment of 11 Former FedEx Express Employees and Two Former Contractors for the U.S. Postal Service on Federal Mail Theft Charges Memphis, TN – On September 11, 2018, a federal grand jury indicted 11 former FedEx Express employees and two former contractors for the U.S. Postal Service on federal mail theft charges. […]
ATLANTA – 8/29/18 – Zachary Adam Johnson, a former postal employee, has been arraigned on federal charges for allegedly burglarizing a post office, stealing mail, and negotiating forged checks. Johnson was indicted by a federal grand jury on August 16, 2018. “Johnson allegedly abused his position as a former postal employee to exploit the U.S. […]
8/29/18 – A federal grand jury sitting in Montgomery, Alabama returned an indictment, which was unsealed today, against a resident of Phenix City, Alabama for his role in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Louis V. Franklin […]