{"id":29342,"date":"2020-09-28T17:08:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T22:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=29342"},"modified":"2020-09-28T17:08:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T22:08:33","slug":"former-madison-county-il-postal-employee-charged-with-stealing-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2020\/09\/28\/former-madison-county-il-postal-employee-charged-with-stealing-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Madison County, IL Postal Employee Charged with Stealing Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DOJ 9\/28\/20 &#8211; A federal grand jury for the Southern District of Illinois has returned an indictment charging Tia<br \/>\nM. Taylor, 27, of Alton, Illinois, with one count of theft of mail by a postal service employee.<br \/>\nThe indictment charges that in July 2020, Taylor stole four packages addressed to Godfrey residents<br \/>\nfrom the Godfrey post office, where she worked as a clerk.<\/p>\n<p>The arraignment for Taylor will be held on Oct. 8, 2020 at 10:30 a.m. at the federal courthouse in<br \/>\nEast St. Louis, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor is the second postal employee charged this month with stealing mail in the Southern District<br \/>\nof Illinois. Athens A. Shorey, 33, of Cobden, Illinois, was indicted earlier this month with taking<br \/>\nmail from the Carbondale post office back in May.<\/p>\n<p>An indictment is a formal charge against a defendant. Under the law, a defendant is presumed to be<br \/>\ninnocent of a charge until proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt to the satisfaction of a jury.<\/p>\n<p>The charge against Taylor resulted from a referral and investigation by the United States Postal<br \/>\nService, Office of the Inspector General. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S.<br \/>\nAttorney Peter T. Reed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-29225\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/theft478-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/theft478-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/theft478-30x30.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOJ 9\/28\/20 &#8211; A federal grand jury for the Southern District of Illinois has returned an indictment charging Tia M. Taylor, 27, of Alton, Illinois, with one count of theft of mail by a postal service employee. The indictment charges that in July 2020, Taylor stole four packages addressed to Godfrey residents from the Godfrey [&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-29342","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\/29342","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=29342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29343,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29342\/revisions\/29343"}],"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=29342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}