Defendants Charged with Over $500,000 in Check Fraud Postal Inspection Service: “If you steal the mail, you’re going to jail” Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. today announced the indictment of ten individuals for stealing more than $500,000 from multiple banks through a check fraud scheme involving mail theft. The defendants are charged in […]
ALBUQUERQUE – 3/26/18 – Adrianne D. Marquez, 42, of Socorro, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M, to a misdemeanor charge of theft of government property. Marquez was charged in a misdemeanor information filed on Jan. 23, 2018, with theft of government funds from Jan. 1, 2017 through July 12, 2017, in […]
U.S. v. Reggie Jackson 3/16/2018 – Defendant Reggie Jackson pleaded guilty before the Honorable Robert H. Cleland, to devising and executing a scheme to defraud through a mail takeover scheme. Specifically, Jackson submitted change of address orders with the U.S. Postal Service using its website, www.usps.com, and redirected mail from unsuspecting victims to addresses he […]
Over 8,800 Identities Stolen from the U.S. Army, Alabama State Agencies and Georgia Businesses Postal employees provided addresses on their routes to which the fraudulent refund checks could be directly mailed 3/8/18 – A Phenix City, Alabama, resident was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for his role in masterminding multiple stolen identity refund […]
3/7/18 – While Susan J. Gissy managed to avoid a lengthy prison sentence for fraudulently collecting workers’ compensation, the Citrus County woman and former local mail carrier still has to repay every cent she stole from the U.S. government. During Gissy’s Monday sentencing hearing at the U.S. District Courthouse in Ocala, Judge Roy B. Dalton […]
2/20/18 – U.S. Attorney John H. Durham announced on Tuesday that Rachael Alexander, also known as Rachael Vierling, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven. Judge Arterton ordered Alexander to pay restitution totaling nearly $443,808. Alexander, who is released on bond, was ordered to report to prison on April 18. […]
Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Brandon Knox, 38, of Fairfield, Maine was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by U.S. Magistrate Judge John C. Nivison to 39 days in prison and one year of supervised release for stealing Postal Money Orders. He was also ordered to pay $485 in restitution. […]
2/5/18 – A U.S. Postal Service supervisor admitted Monday to participating in a scheme with another employee known as “Chuck the Sniffer” to stealing marijuana from packages at the mail sorting facility in Tulsa. Laura Mae Campbell, 47, of Claremore pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma to one count […]
Investigators say a postal worker suspected of stealing gift cards has been caught in the act opening mail — hours after an exclusive NBC 5 Responds report. That same employee is also suspected of stealing $500 in gift cards that a Lincolnshire grandmother mailed to her granddaughters last August. Postal authorities made the discovery after […]
Inside Edition – 1/29/18 – Karma reared its ugly head at a porch pirate who took a nasty fall while allegedly stealing packages from a home outside Seattle. As the alleged thief scurried back to her getaway car, she took a nasty spill on the wet grass. Surveillance cameras caught her trying to get up […]