{"id":36015,"date":"2024-08-09T16:37:03","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T21:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=36015"},"modified":"2024-08-09T16:37:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T21:37:03","slug":"former-houston-usps-clerk-admits-to-stealing-from-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2024\/08\/09\/former-houston-usps-clerk-admits-to-stealing-from-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Houston USPS clerk admits to stealing from mail"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOUSTON \u2013 8\/9\/24 – A 35-year-old Houston postal worker has pleaded guilty to opening mail and stealing money and gift cards, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.<\/p>\n

Laura Aguirre was employed as a postal clerk responsible for processing mail for delivery from Jan. 31 – Feb. 6, 2023.<\/p>\n

The investigation revealed Aguirre had opened some of the mail entrusted with her and stole cash and gift cards totaling at least $2,500. She was terminated and charged with theft of mail as a postal employee.<\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge Ewing Werlein Jr. accepted the plea and set sentencing for Nov. 1. At that time, Aguirre faces up to five years in federal prison and a possible $250,000 maximum fine.<\/p>\n

She was permitted to remain on bond pending that hearing.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Postal Service-Office of Inspector General conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Chu is prosecuting the case.<\/p>\n

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HOUSTON \u2013 8\/9\/24 – A 35-year-old Houston postal worker has pleaded guilty to opening mail and stealing money and gift cards, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani. Laura Aguirre was employed as a postal clerk responsible for processing mail for delivery from Jan. 31 – Feb. 6, 2023. The investigation revealed Aguirre had opened some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-theftandfraud","category-postal-crime","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36015","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=36015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36016,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36015\/revisions\/36016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}