{"id":16454,"date":"2016-09-29T16:26:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T21:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=16454"},"modified":"2016-09-29T16:26:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T21:26:55","slug":"maine-usps-contract-carrier-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/09\/29\/maine-usps-contract-carrier-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine USPS Contract Carrier Pleads Guilty To Stealing Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Augusta, ME\u00a0woman pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Bangor to a charge of stealing mail.<\/p>\n<p>Court records show Julie K. Meek, 56, took more than a dozen envelopes containing checks, cash and gift cards while she was a contract route carrier for the U.S. Postal Service. Meek used them at businesses in Orono, including a gas station and a restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>She could be sentenced to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralmaine.com\/2016\/09\/29\/augusta-woman-pleads-guilty-in-federal-court-to-stealing-mail\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15506\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/theft.jpg\" alt=\"theft\" width=\"315\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/theft.jpg 315w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/theft-300x265.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Augusta, ME\u00a0woman pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Bangor to a charge of stealing mail. Court records show Julie K. Meek, 56, took more than a dozen envelopes containing checks, cash and gift cards while she was a contract route carrier for the U.S. Postal Service. Meek used them at businesses in Orono, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16455,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16454\/revisions\/16455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}