AUGUSTA, Georgia: 9/10/26 – A Florida woman has been sentenced to prison for her role in a multi-state scheme to fraudulently obtain unemployment insurance benefits. The sentence was imposed by U.S. District Court Judge Dudley H. Bowen and announced by Margaret E. “Meg” Heap, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. Cheryl Galloway, 67, […]
Baltimore, Maryland – 9/10/26 – A Baltimore man is headed to federal prison for firearm and postal-service theft crimes. U.S. District Court Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Shykeem Fallin, 24, today, to four years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for possession of a firearm and ammunition by a prohibited person and […]
Bronx, NY – 9/9/26 – The U.S. Postal Inspection Service arrested Junior Javier Pujols Calderon, 27, of Bronx, NY, on September 3, 2026, for stealing mail from a blue collection box located in upper Manhattan. Postal inspectors began investigating thefts of mail in the area after a video clip circulating on social media showed Calderon […]
On July 27, 2026, in the Lincoln County, Wisconsin Circuit Court, Dawn Polka, former President of National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 778 (located in Merrill, Wisc.), was charged with one count of felony theft in a business setting totaling approximately $3,739, in violation of Wisconsin State Statutes 943.20(1)(b) and (3)(bf) and 939.50(3)(i). The […]
ST. LOUIS – 9/8/26 – A St. Louis mail carrier has been accused of dumping at least 30,000 pieces of mail in vacant lots since 2024. Armond Paige, 54, was indicted on September 2 in U.S. District Court in St. Louis on one count of delay or destruction of mail by a postal employee. The […]
On July 16, 2026, in the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota, Kairik Strehlow, former Treasurer of National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 1064 (located in Pierre, S.Dak.), was indicted for one count of embezzlement of union funds totaling $7,731, one count of filing a false union financial report, and […]
SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – 9/1/26 – Delos Thurston, age 28, of Clinton, New York, was sentenced on August 27, 2026, to 3 years’ probation for money order fraud. First Assistant United States Attorney John A. Sarcone III and Matthew M. Modafferi, Special Agent in Charge of the Northeast Area Field Office of the United States […]
ATLANTA – 8/31/25 – Shamarri Tache Brooks, a multi-convicted felon and rapper, was sentenced to federal prison for a fraud scheme involving thousands of checks stolen from the mail. “In addition to personally committing bank fraud, Brooks brazenly marketed and sold fraud tutorials and trafficked thousands of stolen checks worth millions of dollars. Thankfully, Brooks’s […]
LOS ANGELES – 8/28/26 – An aspiring rapper is among two defendants arrested – and a total of three defendants charged – in a 25-count federal grand jury indictment alleging they illegally possessed more than 50 stolen United States Treasury checks and hundreds of other checks belonging to individuals and businesses, totaling more than $8.1 […]
TOPEKA, KAN. – 8/28/26 – A former Kansas postmaster pleaded guilty to falsifying money orders in order to embezzle from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). According to court documents, Sierra Werth, 32, of Quinter pleaded guilty to one count of misappropriation of postal funds. In January 2025, the U.S, Postal Service determined the post office […]