{"id":17647,"date":"2017-01-12T06:39:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T11:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=17647"},"modified":"2017-01-12T06:39:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T11:39:08","slug":"florida-mail-handler-guilty-of-stealing-social-security-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/01\/12\/florida-mail-handler-guilty-of-stealing-social-security-checks\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Mail Handler Guilty of Stealing Social Security Checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2013 A former Tampa Bay area<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>postal employee<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>faces up to 15 years in federal prison for stealing more than $2 million in Social Security checks.<\/p>\n<p>A U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office news release says jurors found 48-year-old Stacy Darnell Mitchell guilty Wednesday of<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>theft of government property and theft of mail. His sentencing date hasn\u2019t been set. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winknews.com\/2017\/01\/12\/postal-worker-guilty-of-stealing-social-security-checks\/\">Wink News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE<\/strong>: Read PEN&#8217;s original coverage <a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/03\/florida-postal-employee-indicted-for-theft-of-more-than-2-million-in-social-security-checks\/\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8129\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dept-of-justice2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2013 A former Tampa Bay area\u00a0postal employee\u00a0faces up to 15 years in federal prison for stealing more than $2 million in Social Security checks. A U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office news release says jurors found 48-year-old Stacy Darnell Mitchell guilty Wednesday of\u00a0theft of government property and theft of mail. His sentencing date hasn\u2019t been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17647","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\/17647","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=17647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17648,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17647\/revisions\/17648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}