CHAGRIN FALLS, Ohio – Was a local postal carrier delivering more than just the mail? He faces charges, accusing him of using drugs on the job. Bennie James Motley III, 20, of Maple Heights was charged Tuesday with drug trafficking, theft and possessing marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Police say he was a postal carrier, working […]
SEATTLE, Wash. — There’s a troubling crime on the rise in King County, and residents in one North Seattle neighborhood have had enough. “It makes you really uncomfortable,” said Heather Campbell, who lives in Seattle’s Pinehurst neighborhood. “It’s one of those things that you don’t know how to protect against.” The postal inspector says mail […]
A United States Postal Service employee has resigned after someone said they spotted him throwing a pile of mail in a dumpster in San Jose. Gus Ruiz, a spokesman for the USPS San Jose area, said the employee was new on the job and wanted to lighten his load. More
BOCA RATON, Fla. — Two postal workers say they were robbed early Wednesday morning at a United States Postal Service processing center at 2800 N. Military Trail. Boca Raton police say the two postal workers showed up at the processing center at around 3 a.m. One of the employees went inside, while the other remained […]
AG’s Office Obtains Conviction of New Orleans Postal Worker for Tax Fraud As a result of a joint tax fraud investigation conducted by the Attorney General’s Office and the Louisiana Department of Revenue, a New Orleans woman pleaded guilty on Friday in Baton Rouge to a violation of Louisiana Revised Statute 14:132, felony injuring public […]
SUGAR LAND, Texas – Police are looking for a man seen on home surveillance video stealing packages from a house in the River Park East subdivision earlier this year. According to the Sugar Land Police Department, it happened in Jan. 15 and 16 at a home in the 5900 block of Oak Place Drive. The […]
TRAFALGAR, Ind. (Feb. 8, 2015) — Johnson County detectives are looking for whoever is responsible for blowing up two mailboxes. The blasts happened outside homes on County Road 525 South and County Road 200 West late Friday night and early Saturday morning. The blasts were so strong they tore the mailboxes to shreds. Read more
Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that two former residents of Danbury were sentenced yesterday in Hartford federal court for participating in a conspiracy involving the theft of monies from the U.S. Postal Service. U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea sentenced TONY STERLIN CANTAVE, 34, to 13 months […]
PITTSBURGH – A highway contract route driver has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of theft of mail, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today. The one-count indictment, returned on Feb. 3, named April Kovach, 39, of Yatesboro, Pa. According to the indictment, on or about Oct. 8, […]
A 33-year-old U.S. Postal Service employee was on “a two-year meth bender” when he stole more than 30,000 pieces of mail bound for residents throughout much of Portland, said his defense attorney Thursday, just before a judge sentenced the carrier to three years in prison. John Paul Osburn grew up in eastern Oregon and had […]