{"id":29440,"date":"2020-10-14T09:02:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T14:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=29440"},"modified":"2020-10-14T09:02:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T14:02:49","slug":"former-north-carolina-postal-employee-pled-guilty-to-stealing-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2020\/10\/14\/former-north-carolina-postal-employee-pled-guilty-to-stealing-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Former North Carolina Postal Employee Pled Guilty to Stealing Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW BERN, N.C. \u2013 10\/13\/20 &#8211; A Havelock man pleaded guilty today to Theft of Mail by a Postal Employee.<\/p>\n<p>According to the United States, William E. Lundy, Sr., 41, worked as a time clerk in the Trenton Post Office.\u00a0 From June 2019 through January 2020, Lundy rifled through the outgoing and incoming mail and stole mail that contained cash, personal checks and gift cards.\u00a0 Based upon customer complaints, the Postal Service conducted an investigation and found 36 first class envelopes in Lundy\u2019s car.\u00a0 32 victims were identified, resulting in a loss of $1,265.\u00a0\u00a0 Lundy voluntarily resigned.<\/p>\n<p>Robert J. Higdon, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina made the announcement after U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert Jones accepted the plea. The United States Postal Service, Office of Inspector General is investigating the case and Assistant U.S. Attorney Susan Menzer \u00a0is prosecuting the case.<\/p>\n<p>U.S District Judge Louise W. Flanagan will sentence Lundy during the February 2021 term of court.\u00a0 The maximum penalties are five years\u2019 imprisonment and a $250,000.\u00a0 Restitution is mandatory.<\/p>\n<p>Related court documents and information can be found on the website of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nced.uscourts.gov\/\"><u>U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina<\/u><\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ecf.nced.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/ShowIndex.pl\"><u>PACER<\/u><\/a>\u00a0by searching for Case No. 4:20-cr-00050-FL.<\/p>\n<p><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>NEW BERN, N.C. \u2013 10\/13\/20 &#8211; A Havelock man pleaded guilty today to Theft of Mail by a Postal Employee. According to the United States, William E. Lundy, Sr., 41, worked as a time clerk in the Trenton Post Office.\u00a0 From June 2019 through January 2020, Lundy rifled through the outgoing and incoming mail and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29440","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\/29440","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=29440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29441,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29440\/revisions\/29441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}