{"id":39742,"date":"2026-07-02T11:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=39742"},"modified":"2026-07-02T11:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:25:14","slug":"former-postal-employee-pleads-guilty-to-theft-of-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2026\/07\/02\/former-postal-employee-pleads-guilty-to-theft-of-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Postal Employee Pleads Guilty to Theft of Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pensacola, Florida<\/strong> \u2013 6\/30\/26 &#8211; Evan Aldric Harris, 30, of Evergreen, Alabama, pleaded guilty to theft of mail by a postal employee. John P. Heekin, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the plea today.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Attorney Heekin said: \u201cOur citizens depend upon the U.S. Postal Service to reliably deliver the mail, and this despicable defendant violated the public trust placed in him as a postal employee by seeking to enrich himself through the theft of mail. I applaud the excellent investigative work by the USPS Inspector General and the aggressive prosecution by my office to hold this thief accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, the defendant was caught on video opening and removing the contents of mail he was tasked with sorting while working as an employee of the United States Postal Service at the Pensacola Processing and Delivery Center. When interviewed by law enforcement, the defendant admitted that he had opened greeting cards and stole gift cards out of them.<\/p>\n<p>Sentencing is scheduled for September 3, 2026, at 9 a.m. before United States District Court Judge M. Casey Rodgers. Harris faces up to 5 years\u2019 imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, and restitution.<\/p>\n<p>The case was investigated by the U.S. Postal Service-Office of Inspector General.\u00a0Assistant United States Attorney Alicia H. Forbes is prosecuting the case.<\/p>\n<p>The United States Attorney\u2019s Office for the Northern District of Florida is one of 94 offices that serve as the nation\u2019s principal litigators under the direction of the Attorney General. To access available public court documents online, please visit the\u00a0<a class=\"ext\" href=\"https:\/\/ecf.flnd.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/login.pl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-extlink=\"\">U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida<\/a>\u00a0website. For more information about the United States Attorney\u2019s Office, Northern District of Florida, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-ndfl\">https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-ndfl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previous PEN coverage <a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2026\/04\/27\/former-florida-postal-employee-charged-with-theft-of-mail\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/j495.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft 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>Pensacola, Florida \u2013 6\/30\/26 &#8211; Evan Aldric Harris, 30, of Evergreen, Alabama, pleaded guilty to theft of mail by a postal employee. John P. Heekin, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the plea today. U.S. Attorney Heekin said: \u201cOur citizens depend upon the U.S. Postal Service to reliably deliver the mail, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39742","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\/39742","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=39742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39743,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39742\/revisions\/39743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}