LOS ANGELES – May 22, 2017 – Three people, two men and a woman, were arrested on Thursday on charges stemming from a rash of mail and package thefts from many mailboxes in the Santa Clarita Valley. A citizen spotted two people acting suspiciously at 4:30 in the morning that day, stealing mail from a […]
Sentencing typically sits at 5 years maximum prison time for mail theft SIOUX CITY, Iowa – 5/19/17 – After a lengthy criminal probe documented by 9 Investigates involving numerous cases of mail theft, 42-year-old Kirk Baird is walking away from federal court with two years probation and 100 hours of community service. The maximum sentencing […]
Michelle Craven, age 34, of Eutawville, SC, was charged in a 1-count Indictment with Theft of Mail by a Postal Employee in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1709. The maximum penalty that Craven could receive is 5 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. The case was investigated by agents of the Postal Inspection Service, and […]
Brittany Rollison, age 26, of Summerville, SC, was charged in a 1-count Indictment with Misappropriation of Funds by a Postal Employee in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1711. The maximum penalty that Rollison could receive is 10 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. The case was investigated by agents of the Postal Inspection Service, and […]
May 17, 2017 – Cherrie Moore, age 40, of Varnville, SC, was charged in a 1-count Indictment with Misappropriation of Funds by a Postal Employee in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1711. The maximum penalty that Moore could receive is 10 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. The case was investigated by agents of the […]
WICHITA, KAN. – 4/26/17 – A Derby man was sentenced Wednesday to 12 months and a day for stealing mail while he worked as a mail carrier, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said. Gary W. Yenzer, 34, Derby, Kan., pleaded guilty to one count of theft of U.S. mail. In his plea, he admitted that in […]
U.S. Dept. of Labor – On March 22, 2017, in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, Sharon Holmes, former Secretary-Treasurer of American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Local 807 (located in Columbia, S.C.), was sentenced to one day of imprisonment and 18 months of supervised release. Holmes was also ordered pay restitution […]
Sterling Mail Carrier Tayson Hidalgo Sentenced for Delay and Destruction of Mail DENVER – 4/11/17 – Tayson Adam Hidalgo, age 23, of Sterling, Colorado, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve 2 years’ probation during which he is to spend 200 hours doing community service for delay or destruction […]
Two former U.S. Postal Service employees were sentenced to prison for fraudulently obtaining federal worker’s compensation benefits, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja and U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Monica Weyler. Margaret M. Davis, 56, of Massillon, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay […]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – 3/22/17 – Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Osage Beach, Mo., woman was indicted by a federal grand jury today for a scheme to open fraudulent bank accounts in order to cash checks stolen from the mail. Chrystal Lynn Bernstein, 27, of […]