1\/21\/26 – David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that EZEKIEL BAILEY, 33, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vernon D. Oliver in Hartford to 24 months of imprisonment and one year of supervised release for using stolen identities to defraud the U.S. Postal Service.<\/p>\n
According to court documents and statements made in court, the U.S Postal Inspection Service began an investigation after receiving reports that an individual had been passing, and attempting to pass, bad checks to purchase thousands of dollars in postage stamps from U.S. Post Offices in Connecticut and surrounding states.\u00a0 The investigation revealed that Bailey had used the identities of three separate victims, fake driver\u2019s licenses, and checks linked to empty bank accounts that had been created in the victims\u2019 names, to purchase or attempt to purchase $134,297 in stamps from U.S. Post Offices in Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Massachusetts, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n
On January 20, 2023, Bailey was arrested on related state charges after he attempted to purchase 25 books of postage stamps for $300 at post office in Stonington.\u00a0 He possessed two fake driver\u2019s licenses in the names of identity theft victims at the time of his arrest.\u00a0 He was charged federally on November 26, 2024.<\/p>\n
On September 15, 2025, Bailey pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft, an offense that carries a mandatory term of imprisonment of two years.<\/p>\n
This investigation was conducted by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.\u00a0 The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel George.<\/p>\n
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