California Postmaster Arrested for stealing more than $23,000 from Rural Post Office

SACRAMENTO, CA (AP) – Federal prosecutors say they have arrested a postmaster for stealing more than $23,000 from a rural post office in Northern California.

The U.S. attorney’s office in Sacramento said 38-year-old Kristina Michelle Morris was arrested Thursday for felony embezzlement, theft of cash and theft of money orders. She was released on $10,000 bail and has not entered a plea.

Morris is suspected of stealing from the post office in Bieber, a Lassen County town about 100 miles east of Redding. Prosecutors say the thefts occurred between October 2010 and May.

She faces a maximum prison sentence of 25 years and a $750,000 fine. Her public defender, Dennis Waks of Sacramento, says it’s too early in the legal proceedings to make a statement.

Associated Press via News 10

2 thoughts on “California Postmaster Arrested for stealing more than $23,000 from Rural Post Office

  1. Who cares were now down to two hundred nineteen thousand employees instead of two hundred twenty thousand employees to get rid of.

    Think if we put that clerk in another office she could?

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