{"id":9841,"date":"2015-01-26T08:26:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T13:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=9841"},"modified":"2015-01-26T08:26:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T13:26:52","slug":"postal-service-employee-sentenced-to-probation-with-home-detention-for-stealing-from-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/01\/26\/postal-service-employee-sentenced-to-probation-with-home-detention-for-stealing-from-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal Service Employee Sentenced To Probation With Home Detention For Stealing From Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font: 14px\/16.79px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #242424; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">PITTSBURGH\u00a0&#8211; 1.23.15\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0A resident of Parker, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to two years probation, which includes three months home detention, and a $500 fine on her conviction of theft of mail by a Postal employee, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/16.79px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #242424; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">United States District Judge Nora Barry Fischer imposed the sentence on Pamela D. Vogt, 44. <a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dept-of-justice2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8129\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/dept-of-justice2.gif\" alt=\"dept-of-justice2\" width=\"220\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/16.79px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #242424; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">According to information presented to the court, on or about Feb. 6, 2014, Vogt, while working as a U.S. Postal Service employee, removed a $20 bill from a greeting card contained in an envelope which was addressed and intended for delivery by the U.S. Postal Service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/16.79px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #242424; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Assistant United States Attorney Margaret E. Picking prosecuted this case on behalf of the government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/16.79px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: #242424; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">U.S. Attorney Hickton commended the U.S. Postal Inspection Service-Office of Inspector General (USPIS) for the investigation leading to the successful prosecution of Vogt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH\u00a0&#8211; 1.23.15\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0A resident of Parker, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to two years probation, which includes three months home detention, and a $500 fine on her conviction of theft of mail by a Postal employee, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today. United States District Judge Nora Barry Fischer imposed the sentence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","category-postal-crime","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9841","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=9841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9842,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9841\/revisions\/9842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}