{"id":27527,"date":"2019-10-29T17:23:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T22:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=27527"},"modified":"2019-10-29T17:23:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T22:23:42","slug":"iowa-postal-employee-pleads-guilty-to-theft-of-mail-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/10\/29\/iowa-postal-employee-pleads-guilty-to-theft-of-mail-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Postal Employee Pleads Guilty to Theft of Mail Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rheuport stole hydrocodone and money from mail assigned to her for delivery<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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DOJ – 10\/28\/19 – Cassandra Rheuport, 30, from Rolfe, Iowa, pled guilty to theft of mail by a postal employee, on October 23, 2019, in United States District Court in Sioux City.<\/p>\n

Rheuport admitted that from about February 2018 through July 28, 2018, she opened mail and\/or stole mail entrusted to her as an employee of the United States Postal Service.\u00a0 Rheuport stole at least $395, as well as narcotic medications prescribed for others.\u00a0 At the time of the thefts, Rheuport was a city carrier assistant assigned to the Pocahontas Post Office.<\/p>\n

Sentencing before United States District Court Chief Judge Leonard T. Strand will be set after a presentence report is prepared.\u00a0 Rheuport remains free on bond previously set pending sentencing.\u00a0 Rheuport faces a possible maximum sentence of 5 years\u2019 imprisonment without the possibility of parole, a fine of up to $250,000, a mandatory special assessment of $100, and a term of supervised release of up to one year following any imprisonment.\u00ad<\/p>\n

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Ron Timmons and was investigated by the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General Office of Investigations.<\/p>\n

Court file information at\u00a0https:\/\/ecf.iand.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/login.pl<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Rheuport stole hydrocodone and money from mail assigned to her for delivery DOJ – 10\/28\/19 – Cassandra Rheuport, 30, from Rolfe, Iowa, pled guilty to theft of mail by a postal employee, on October 23, 2019, in United States District Court in Sioux City. Rheuport admitted that from about February 2018 through July 28, 2018, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-theftandfraud","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27527","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=27527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27529,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27527\/revisions\/27529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}