CHICAGO — 12/19/25 – A United States Postal Service employee has been indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly collecting augmented workers’ compensation benefits to which she was not entitled. In 2012, GRACIELA VENEGAS began receiving workers’ compensation benefits for an injury she sustained in the performance of her Postal Service duties. Venegas claimed her spouse […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – 12/18/25 – A Belton, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in the theft of government property, Treasury checks. Julian King, 32, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Beth Phillips to 6 months imprisonment based upon his guilty plea to theft of government funds relating to […]
ST. LOUIS – 12/16/25 – U.S. District Judge Sarah E. Pitlyk on Tuesday sentenced a man who committed bank fraud for years with checks stolen from the mail to 72 months in prison. Judge Pitlyk also ordered Terron T. Brown, 23, to repay $51,932 to victims. Brown pleaded guilty in August to one count of […]
Distribution clerk at the Auburn Post Office stole cash and gift cards from mail PORTLAND, Maine: 12/15/25 – A Farmingdale woman pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Portland to theft of mail by a postal employee. According to court records, Shannon Littlefield, 29, stole cash and gift cards from greeting cards entrusted to her […]
(SUFFOLK COUNTY, N.Y.) – PEN – 12/12/25 – Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney today announced that postal worker Jovanni Jamison-Lewis, 35, of Mastic Beach, was arrested and arraigned for Grand Larceny in the Fourth Degree, and other charges, for allegedly stealing items from envelopes placed in the mail at the Oakdale Post Office. […]
On October 16, 2025, in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, Marcus Miller, former Vice President of National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 775 (located in Niles, Mich.), pleaded guilty to one count of embezzlement of union funds in the amount of $54,820, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 501(c). […]
Tampa, Florida – 12/05/25 – United States Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe announces that Tajmir Wyles (New Jersey, 31) has pleaded guilty to robbery of a postal mail carrier and receipt, possession or concealment of stolen property of the United States. Wyles faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. According to court documents, […]
12/09/25 – David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KIERRA BLOUNT, 35, formerly of Stamford and currently residing in Plymouth, North Carolina, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sarala V. Nagala in Hartford to 30 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release for fraud and mail […]
ST. LOUIS – 12/08/25 – A man from Waukegan, Illinois on Monday admitted traveling to Missouri and other states to open fraudulent bank accounts and deposit checks that had been stolen from the U.S. Mail. Terry Carter-Kilgore, 28, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in St. Louis to one count of bank fraud. Between December […]
LOS ANGELES – 12/08/25 – A South Bay woman who formerly worked as a letter carrier for the United States Postal Service in Torrance was sentenced today to 63 months in federal prison for stealing checks and debit and credit cards from the mail then selling them to her accomplices for three years, using the […]