{"id":15408,"date":"2016-06-30T08:55:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T13:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=15408"},"modified":"2016-06-30T08:55:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T13:55:42","slug":"former-oklahoma-postal-employee-to-serve-year-in-prison-for-theft-of-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/06\/30\/former-oklahoma-postal-employee-to-serve-year-in-prison-for-theft-of-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Oklahoma Postal Employee to Serve Year in Prison for Theft of Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: #171e24; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.6px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><em>Oklahoma City, Oklahoma<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; June 29, 2016\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0 Today,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><strong>JEFFREY LEMON, JR.<\/strong>, 30, from Oklahoma City, was sentenced by United States District Judge David L. Russell to serve twelve months in a federal prison for theft of mail by a Postal Service employee, announced Mark A. Yancey, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: #171e24; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.6px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">A federal grand jury indicted Lemon on September 1, 2015, alleging that he stole money orders deposited in the mail by Postal Service customers.\u00a0 Lemon pled not guilty and went to trial on December 1, 2015.\u00a0 According to evidence presented at trial, Lemon was an employee at the U.S. Post Office in Warr Acres, Oklahoma.\u00a0 Evidence showed that between March 2015 and June 2015, Lemon stole money orders deposited in the mail by Postal Service customers at the Warr Acres Post Office and cashed them for his benefit.\u00a0 The jury found him guilty on 17 counts of theft of mail by a postal service employee.\u00a0 Judge Russell dismissed one count during the course of trial.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: #171e24; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.6px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">At a sentencing hearing today, Judge Russell sentenced Lemon to serve twelve months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release upon completion of his prison term.\u00a0 He was also ordered to pay $11,803.65 in restitution to the United States Postal Service, which had previously reimbursed Lemon\u2019s victims for their losses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: #171e24; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.6px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">This case was the result of an investigation by the United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General.\u00a0 The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jessica L. Perry and Assistant U.S. Attorney Brandon Hale.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: #171e24; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.6px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11175 size-medium\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dept-of-Justice-Large-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"Dept of Justice Large\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dept-of-Justice-Large-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Dept-of-Justice-Large.jpg 459w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma City, Oklahoma\u00a0&#8211; June 29, 2016\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0 Today,\u00a0JEFFREY LEMON, JR., 30, from Oklahoma City, was sentenced by United States District Judge David L. Russell to serve twelve months in a federal prison for theft of mail by a Postal Service employee, announced Mark A. Yancey, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. 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