{"id":922,"date":"2010-05-17T08:25:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T13:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=922"},"modified":"2010-05-17T08:25:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T13:25:59","slug":"sentencing-today-for-former-postal-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2010\/05\/17\/sentencing-today-for-former-postal-employee\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentencing Today for Former Postal Employee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Sentencing today for former postal employee charged with stealing Best Buy rewards certificates<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FORMER POSTAL EMPLOYEE ENTERS A PLEA OF GUILTY TO THEFT OF MAIL<br \/>\n\u2013 Former postal employee charged with stealing Best Buy rewards certificates<\/p>\n<p>Louisville, KY &#8211; United States Attorney Candace G. Hill of the Western District of Kentucky announced today that Alice Hill-Murrell, age 44, of Louisville, Kentucky, in Jefferson County, pled guilty to charges of theft of mail matter.<\/p>\n<p>The Indictment alleged that between October 2006 through November of 2008, Hill-Murrell rifled through the mail and stole Best Buy Rewards Zones cards from mail letters, cards and packages. Investigators were able to link Hill-Murrell to approximately 68 certificates which belonged to other customers.<\/p>\n<p>The maximum potential penalties are 15 years&#8217; imprisonment, a $500,000 fine, and supervised release for a period of up to 3 years.<\/p>\n<p>The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Lettricea Jefferson-Webb, and it was investigated by the United States Postal Service, Office of the Inspector General, Louisville Metro Police Department and the United States Secret Service.<\/p>\n<p>Hill-Murrell is scheduled to appear for sentencing before the United States District Court Chief Judge Thomas B. Russell on <strong>May 17, 2010<\/strong>, at 11:45 a.m., in Louisville, Kentucky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sentencing today for former postal employee charged with stealing Best Buy rewards certificates FORMER POSTAL EMPLOYEE ENTERS A PLEA OF GUILTY TO THEFT OF MAIL \u2013 Former postal employee charged with stealing Best Buy rewards certificates Louisville, KY &#8211; United States Attorney Candace G. Hill of the Western District of Kentucky announced today that Alice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","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=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":924,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}