Ex-Postal Employee Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison Michele Smith Stole $214,017.53 in Postal Money Orders PORTLAND, Ore. – U. S. District Court Judge Ancer L. Haggerty sentenced Michele Smith, 51, of Portland, Oregon, to serve 18 months in prison and ordered her to pay $201,034.74 in restitution to the U.S. Postal Service following last […]
(LAREDO, Texas) – Raul Cavazos, 62, of Edinburgh, Texas, has been arrested as a result of the return of a sealed indictment which charges him with theft of mail matter by a U.S. Postal Service employee, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today. The sealed indictment returned on Tuesday, March 16, 2010, by a […]
September 10, 2010 U.S. Department of Justice – United States Attorney Northern District of New York Richard S. Hartunian, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, announced today that JAMES IZYK, 49, of Oswego, New York was sentenced in federal court today in Syracuse, N.Y. by U.S. District Court Judge Norman A. […]
The public should beware of imposters in Postal Carrier clothing without proper picture ID, say U. S. Postal Inspectors in the Charlotte Division. Over the Labor Day holiday weekend, a thief, who broke into multiple storage units rented by a Postal employee, made off with six uniforms and one jacket, all with USPS logos. “Both […]
United States of America v. Henry Lee Monday This is a case where postal inspectors planted $40.00 in a letter in an attempt to catch the carrier opening and stealing the cash – the carrier did take the cash. Briefly the case states… A factual twist in this case is that the incriminating letter was […]
Federal investigators said Friday that a former postal clerk in the Rutland office has been indicted in the rash of mail thefts reported in the area earlier this year. A federal grand jury handed down a one-count indictment Thursday charging that Michelle Donahoe “intentionally embezzled letters, mail and articles contained therein” over a four-month period […]
Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, today announced that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Terry L. Lambert, 51, of Clinton, Ohio, with theft of mail by a postal employee and unauthorized opening of mail by a postal employee. The indictment alleges that from as early […]
On April 28, 2010, in the 60th District Court of Muskegon County, Michigan, a misdemeanor complaint was filed charging Jamie Nielsen, former President of National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 13 (located in Muskegon, Mich.), with one count of embezzlement of $200 or more but less than $1,000. The charge follows an investigation by […]
June 26, 2010 Former Marysville Postal Supervisor Pleads Guilty To Thefts Former Marysville, CA USPS supervisor June Marie Casteel has plead guilty to stealing $4,633 in money orders and cash. Her thefts took place between Septemeber 5 and 9, 2009. Casteel took advantage of her position as supervisor and gained access to an employee’s cash […]
FORMER POSTAL EMPLOYEE SENTENCED TO STATUTORY MAXIMUM SENTENCE OF FIVE YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR ROLE IN MAIL THEFT CONSPIRACY Defendant Worked as a Mail Handler at Dallas Main Post Office DALLAS — A former employee of the U.S. Postal Service, James Olabode Laniyan, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis to […]