Co-Conspirators Allegedly Accessed United States Mail to Steal Checks COLUMBUS, Ohio – 10/11/17 – A federal grand jury has charged 13 individuals with conspiracy to commit bank fraud and bank fraud in an 18-count superseding indictment returned here today. Benjamin C. Glassman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Christopher White, Assistant Inspector in […]
10/06/17 – A judge sentenced a former mail sorter at the Roanoke post office to probation for stealing money from the mail. Michelle Spinner of Big Island was ordered at Thursday’s hearing to pay back $2,603, court papers said. She pleaded guilty in July to a single count of theft of mail or mail contents […]
10/03/17 – Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROBERT KUSS, 55, of Cheshire, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for defrauding the U.S. Postal Service of nearly $750,000. According to […]
10/03/17 – A former U.S. Postal Service (USPS) station manager was sentenced on Oct. 2, to 97 months in prison for his role directing a bribery and drug scheme in which USPS workers delivered hundreds of pounds of marijuana to individuals in the District of Columbia in exchange for cash bribes. Acting Assistant Attorney General […]
Former Cross Lanes postal worker pleads guilty to stealing pain pills from the mail Postal worker targeted packages containing oxycodone and hydrocodone CHARLESTON, W.Va. – 10/02/17 – A former postal worker who stole oxycodone and hydrocodone pills from packages pleaded guilty today, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Brittany Harrison, 31, of Cross Lanes, entered […]
Vacaville Man Pled Guilty To Disability Benefits Fraud SACRAMENTO, Calif. — 9/28/17 – Michael McCree, 65, of Vacaville, CA, pleaded guilty today to one count of mail fraud, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, McCree worked for the United States Post Office for approximately six months in 1988 and 1989, […]
MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – 9/28/17 – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that LEANDA JOANNE PRATHER, age 37, of Canadian, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 3 years probation for EMBEZZLEMENT OF MAIL BY POSTAL EMPLOYEE, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1709. The Indictment alleged that between on […]
Des Moines Postmaster Cheryl Love was fired for failing to investigate the embezzlement of $160,000 over a period of two years at a south-side post office. Des Moines Postmaster Cheryl Love was fired early this year after she was accused of failing to investigate a long-running scam that cost the U.S. Postal Service more than […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A northeast Albuquerque man woke up to a strange sight in the middle of his neighborhood’s street Wednesday morning. Jim Fawver walked outside to get the paper when he noticed a huge pile of mail on his street. Among the discarded mail: utility bills, catalogs and credit card offers. It appeared the […]
WICHITA, KAN. – 9/18/17 – A former mail carrier in Sheridan County was sentenced Monday to six months in prison for stealing mail he was supposed to deliver, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said. The defendant was ordered to pay $4,000 in restitution. James N. Stephenson, 25, formerly of Hoxie, Kan., and now living in Basehor, […]