{"id":37022,"date":"2024-12-23T16:25:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T21:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=37022"},"modified":"2024-12-23T16:25:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T21:25:51","slug":"new-orleans-man-guilty-of-conspiring-to-steal-mail-possession-of-a-usps-mail-key-and-possession-of-stolen-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2024\/12\/23\/new-orleans-man-guilty-of-conspiring-to-steal-mail-possession-of-a-usps-mail-key-and-possession-of-stolen-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans Man  Guilty of Conspiring to Steal Mail, Possession of a USPS Mail Key and Possession of Stolen Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-align-justify\"><strong>NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA<\/strong> &#8212; 12\/23\/24 &#8211; U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that CHAD WOODS (\u201cWOODS\u201d), age 29, of New Orleans, pled guilty on Thursday, December 19, 2024, \u00a0to Conspiracy to Steal United States Mail in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371 Possession of a United States Postal Service (USPS ) \u201carrow\u201d key in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1704, and Possession of Stolen Mail that had been deposited into authorized mail receptacles, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1708. United States District Court Judge Eldon E. Fallon set sentencing for March 27, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">According to the indictment, on June 23, 2022,\u00a0<strong>WOODS<\/strong>\u00a0and another man stole mail from one location and attempted to steal mail from another location in Kenner, Louisiana. \u00a0The co-conspirator acted as the driver and\u00a0<strong>WOODS<\/strong> used the USPS key to steal mail from the first location. \u00a0After a police chase, the pair were found in possession of 36 stolen checks, including one forged counterfeit check, six opened pieces of mail, and the USPS \u201carrow key\u201d used to open the USPS mailboxes to steal mail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\"><strong>WOODS<\/strong>\u00a0faces a maximum penalty of up to five (5) years imprisonment on the Conspiracy to Steal United States Mail and the Possession of Stolen Mail counts, and up to ten (10) years imprisonment on the count of Possession of the United States Postal Service mail key, each of these counts to be followed by up to three (3) years of supervised release, a fine of up to $250,000, and a mandatory $100 special assessment fee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">U.S. Attorney Evans praised the work of the United States Postal Inspection Service, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Kenner Police Department in investigating this matter. \u00a0Assistant U.S. Attorney Jon Maestri of the General Crimes Unit is charge of the prosecution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/j495.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-33705\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/j495-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/j495-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/j495-30x30.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA &#8212; 12\/23\/24 &#8211; U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that CHAD WOODS (\u201cWOODS\u201d), age 29, of New Orleans, pled guilty on Thursday, December 19, 2024, \u00a0to Conspiracy to Steal United States Mail in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371 Possession of a United States Postal Service (USPS ) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72,110,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-theftandfraud","category-under-siege","category-postal-crime","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37022","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=37022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37023,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37022\/revisions\/37023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}