LAFAYETTE, La. – 8/22/17 – Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a former Morgan City Post Office custodian pleaded guilty to stealing from U.S. mail. Jerome Guidry, 39, of Bayou Vista, La., pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Patrick Hanna to one count of theft of mail by a postal service […]
CAMDEN, N.J. – 8/16/17 – A U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee and three others were charged in connection with a $100,000 fraud involving numerous stolen blank money orders, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced today. Marc Saunders, 39, of Sicklerville, New Jersey, is charged by complaint with stealing a money order imprinting machine and […]
The former West Carrollton postal worker too injured to work but allegedly seen vacationing and riding amusement park rides reached a plea deal Monday with federal prosecutors. Laticha Schroyer’s trial on counts of theft and false statements related to federal workers’ compensation benefits was to begin Tuesday in Dayton’s U.S. District Court. Instead, Schroyer, 43, […]
Nampa Woman Indicted for Mail Theft BOISE – 8/10/17 – Laura Alicia Cox, 56, of Nampa, Idaho, was indicted by a federal grand jury on August 8, 2017, for two counts of mail theft by a postal employee, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced. The indictment alleges that Ms. Cox, then a Postal Service employee, stole […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – 8/3/17 – Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a mail carrier pleaded guilty in federal court today to stealing gift cards and checks from postal customers in Independence, Mo. Audrey S. Odell, 34, of Blue Springs, Mo., waived her right to a grand […]
On July 10, 2017, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Brenda Schaefer, former Treasurer of National Rural Letter Carriers Association (NRLCA) Local 39 (located in Chesterfield, Mich.), pled guilty to one count of willful failure to maintain union records, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 439(a). The guilty plea follows […]
DALLAS – 7/27/17 – Tonya Evans, 52, a former U.S. Postal Service employee, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 21 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $98,888.73 in restitution for participating in a scheme to defraud the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Worker’s Compensation Program (OWCP), announced […]
PAUOA (HawaiiNewsNow) – After security footage captured an alleged mail thief in Pauoa, neighbors are on edge and want the suspect caught. On July 2, home surveillance video captured a man fiddling with a mailbox on Lusitana Street near Pauoa Road. He walked away with the newspaper. Later that week, he was caught snooping around […]
A former United States postal worker has pled guilty to theft of mail she obtained from her delivery route in Hillsboro Beach, Florida. Acting U.S. Attorney Benjamin G. Greenberg of the Southern District of Florida and Special Agent in Charge Maximo Eamiguel, United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General (USPS-OIG), Southern Area Field Office, […]
BOSTON – 7/20/17 – A former U.S. Postal Service employee pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to fraudulently obtaining worker’s compensation for medical travel. Joseph Scimone, 72, of Stoneham, pleaded guilty to one count of fraud in obtaining federal employee compensation and was sentenced by U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler to […]