Former postal worker is charged with stealing Netflix videos, gift cards

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former postal employee was charged in federal court today with stealing hundreds of Netflix movies, gift cards and other mail. Felipe S. Lara, 35, of Blue Springs, Mo., waived his right to a grand jury and was […]

Two Alabama Postal Employees Indicted For Mail Theft and Delay

BIRMINGHAM – A federal grand jury today returned separate indictments charging two U.S. Postal Service employees with mail related violations, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Postal Service Office of Inspector General Assistant Special Agent in Charge Kenny Smith. The indictments filed in U.S. District Court charge the two Postal Service employees with delaying […]

Former NJ Postal Worker Pleads Guilty to Stealing $69,850 From USPS

Press Release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of New Jersey Camden, N.J.  A Flanders, N.J., woman admitted today to embezzling $69,850 from the U.S. Postal Service, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Thea Sisler, 31, pleaded guilty today to an Information charging her with intentionally misappropriating funds from the U.S. Postal Service while working […]

Glens Falls NY Letter Carrier Admits Stealing Mail

Press Release from the US Attorney’s Office, Northern District Of New York UNITED STATES ATTORNEY RICHARD S. HARTUNIAN announced that DOUGLAS HARRINGTON pled guilty today before Senior United States District Court Judge Thomas J. McAvoy, in Albany, New York, to the felony offense of theft of mail matter by a postal employee. Sentencing for HARRINGTON […]

2 Postmasters, 1 Letter Carrier charged with theft

“Three area U.S. Postal Service employees, including two village postmasters and a former letter carrier from Toledo, have been charged in unrelated cases in U.S. District Court in Toledo with violating federal postal laws.” see more info from Toledo (Ohio)Blade Press Release from the United States Attorney Northern District of Ohio Criminal charges were filed […]

Arizona Postal Worker indicted for forging money orders stolen from customers’ mail

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona announced that a federal grand jury in Tucson returned a 12-count indictment against former Postal Service Officer Anna Cecilia Miranda for passing forged and altered U.S. Postal Service money orders after knowingly and unlawfully stealing those money orders from Pirtleville, Ariz., Post Office customers.

Maryland Postal Worker Sentenced To Prison For Theft of Mail

Baltimore, Maryland – (August 30, 2011) U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake, sentenced James M. Russell, age 49, of Brandywine, Maryland, today to six months in prison, followed by six months of home detention and two years of supervised release, for theft of mail while he was employed by the U.S. Postal Service. Judge Blake […]

New Mexico USPS Window Clerk Gets Prison For Embezzling Over $80,000

ALBUQUERQUE (August 18, 2011) – This afternoon, a United States District Judge sentenced Yolanda Vallejos, a 48-year-old resident of Albuquerque, to a two-month term of imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release for her conviction for theft of federal government property. Vallejos also was ordered to pay $97,025.44 in restitution to the […]

Michigan Postal worker surrenders allegations of stealing Vets drugs from mail

Flat Rock, Michigan  A former postal carrier voluntarily surrendered to police Friday morning on an arrest warrant for allegedly stealing prescription drug parcels from the mail.The carrier, 51, resigned from her job after an interview with agents in May, according to Scott Pierce, deputy special agent in charge of the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of […]

Former New Jersey APWU President Gets Probation For Tax Evasion

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) – A former president of a New Jersey postal workers union has been sentenced to five years’ probation, including a year of home confinement. Gary Weightman of Keansburg pleaded guilty in December 2008 to two counts of tax evasion. He was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Newark. He was also […]