{"id":29334,"date":"2020-09-25T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=29334"},"modified":"2020-09-25T10:02:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T15:02:00","slug":"former-texas-postal-employee-indicted-for-delay-and-destruction-of-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2020\/09\/25\/former-texas-postal-employee-indicted-for-delay-and-destruction-of-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Texas postal employee indicted for delay and destruction of mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON \u2013 A 24-year-old Richmond resident has surrendered to federal authorities following the return of an indictment alleging she delayed and\/or destroyed U.S. mail, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan Patrick.<\/p>\n<p>A Houston federal grand jury returned the indictment Sept. 15 against Lovely Eliabe which was unsealed today. She is expected to make an initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Christina Bryan at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Eliabe was allegedly employed as a rural carrier associate at the U.S. Postal Service (USPS).<\/p>\n<p>The indictment alleges she destroyed and delayed mail matter intended to be delivered through the USPS on June 26. As a USPS employee, Eliabe allegedly violated her obligation to deliver all of the mail matter entrusted to her.<\/p>\n<p>She is no longer a USPS employee.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted, she faces up to five years in federal prison and a possible $250,000 maximum fine.<\/p>\n<p>USPS \u2013 Office of Inspector General conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Luis Batarse is prosecuting the case.<b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b><i>An indictment is a formal accusation of criminal conduct, not evidence. A defendant is presumed innocent unless convicted through due process of law.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27588\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/justice1aa-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/justice1aa-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/justice1aa.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON \u2013 A 24-year-old Richmond resident has surrendered to federal authorities following the return of an indictment alleging she delayed and\/or destroyed U.S. mail, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan Patrick. A Houston federal grand jury returned the indictment Sept. 15 against Lovely Eliabe which was unsealed today. She is expected to make an initial appearance before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29334","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\/29334","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=29334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29335,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29334\/revisions\/29335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}