{"id":16737,"date":"2016-10-22T08:51:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T13:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=16737"},"modified":"2016-10-22T08:51:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T13:51:59","slug":"former-effie-la-post-office-employee-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-more-than-6000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/10\/22\/former-effie-la-post-office-employee-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-more-than-6000\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Effie, LA Post Office employee pleads guilty to stealing more than $6,000"},"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-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><strong>ALEXANDRIA, La.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>\u2013 United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Cottonport woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing more than $6,000 from the Effie Post Office.<\/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-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Chelsa Dobison, 26, of Cottonport, La., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell to one count of issuing fraudulent money orders. According to the guilty plea, Dobison was an employee of the Post Office in Effie, La. \u00a0From January 2016 to April 2016, she issued $6,631.55 in money orders to herself without prepaying for them. This caused a financial loss to the Post Office. She resigned her position in April of 2016.<\/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-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Dobison faces five years in prison, three years supervised release, restitution and a $250,000 fine.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><strong>A sentencing date of January 26, 2017 was set.<\/strong><\/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-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General investigated the case.\u00a0 Assistant U.S. Attorney Mary J. Mudrick is prosecuting the case.<\/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-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-16264\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/justice-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"justice-1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/justice-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/justice-1-30x30.jpg 30w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/justice-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/justice-1-266x266.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALEXANDRIA, La.\u00a0\u2013 United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Cottonport woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing more than $6,000 from the Effie Post Office. Chelsa Dobison, 26, of Cottonport, La., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell to one count of issuing fraudulent money orders. 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