CHARLESTON, S.C. — 3/30/26 – The United States District Court for the District of South Carolina has unsealed an indictment charging five individuals for their roles in a fraud and money laundering scheme that resulted in a cumulative loss of at least $3.5 million. The following have been charged for their roles in the scheme: […]
RICHMOND, Va. – 3/25/26 – A North Chesterfield man was sentenced today to four years in prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud. According to court documents, from Oct. 24, 2021, to May 5, 2025, Joshua Lee, 28, was employed as a mail processing clerk at the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Richmond Processing and Distribution […]
ATLANTA – Former mail recovery clerk Daniqua Clark has pleaded guilty to stealing cash, gift cards, and other items from the mail while working at the Atlanta Mail Recovery Center and fraudulently obtaining two pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, and former mail recovery clerk Deneeka Ferguson has pleaded guilty to participating in the mail […]
3/18/26 – San Diego, CA – PEN – March 5, 2026, a federal grand jury indicted Wayne Fister, aka Wayne Wong, for selling millions of counterfeit U.S. postage stamps. In one interdiction, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service intercepted five different packages intended for Fister that together contained more than 1 million counterfeit stamps. Fister is […]
BROOKLYN, NY — 3/20/26 -PEN – Following an investigation by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the New York Police Department, a federal judge sentenced Andrae Small on March 16, 2026, to seven years in prison for the March 5,2024, robbery of a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier and mail theft in the Crown Heights […]
SCRANTON- 3/20/26 – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Nicholas Pecko, age 33, of Vandling, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of bank fraud and theft of mail. According to United States Attorney Brian D. Miller, the indictment alleges that Pecko, an employee of […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – 3/20/26 – A former U.S. Postal Service employee was sentenced yesterday for his role in a bank fraud scheme involving stolen mail, announced Russ Ferguson, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Andre Whitehurst, 34, of Charlotte, was sentenced to 15 months in prison followed by one year of supervised […]
BUFFALO, N.Y. – 3/13/26 – U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo announced today that Alexandria Duncan, 23, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah J. McCarthy to conspiracy to commit mail theft, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Assistant U.S. Attorney Franz M. Wright, who is […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – 3/12/26 – Today, Acting United States Attorney Kevin Davidson announced two additional sentencings in a mail theft and bank fraud conspiracy involving four defendants. On March 5, 2026, 24-year-old Tra’von Charles Rogers, of Prattville, Alabama, received a sentence of 24 months in federal prison. Two days prior, on March 3, 2026, a […]
3/12/26 – David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICKYEEM PROFIT, 22, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 102 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release for his participation in the violent armed robberies of multiple retail stores […]