Former Postal Service Employee Pleads Guilty to Mail Theft
June 4, 2010
Baltimore, Maryland – Althaniel Arson Dailey, age 47, of Severn, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to mail theft.
The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein and Postal Inspector in Charge Daniel S. Cortez of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service – Washington Division.
According to the plea agreement, on February 28, 2009, Dailey, a former police officer and Postal Service employee, arrived at the loading dock at the Columbia, Maryland Post Office, where he had been employed until his discharge three to four weeks earlier. Dailey represented himself to be an employee of a large Postal Service customer in the area which picks up its own mail because it contains a large volume of returned mail containing cash. Dailey loaded the company’s 12 letter trays and two tubs of mail into his car.
Dailey admits that later that day, wearing his former Postal Service uniform, and identifying himself as a Postal Service employee, he delivered two tubs and three letter trays of mail to the company’s corporate headquarters. Dailey retained nine letter trays of mail, consisting primarily of returned mail. Each of the approximately 600 letters in each of the nine trays contained cash, totaling approximately $10,800.
Dailey faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett has scheduled sentencing for August 19, 2010 at 10:30 a.m.
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein commended Assistant United States Attorney Tamera L. Fine, who is prosecuting the case.
DOJ, FBI And US Postal Inspection Service Announce Formal Conclusion of Investigation Into 2001 Anthrax Attacks
The following is a press release issued by the Justice Department:
The Justice Department, FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service today announced that the investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks, which killed five individuals and sickened 17 others, has formally concluded.
Earlier today, representatives of the FBI and Justice Department provided a 92-page investigative summary along with attachments to victims of the attacks, relatives of the victims and appropriate committees of Congress. This document sets forth a summary of the evidence developed in the “Amerithrax” investigation, the largest investigation into a bio-weapons attack in U.S. history. As disclosed previously, the Amerithrax investigation found that the late Dr. Bruce Ivins acted alone in planning and executing these attacks.
The investigative summary and the attachments are now accessible to the public and have been posted to the Justice Department Web site at www.usdoj.gov/amerithrax under the Freedom of Information Act. In addition, roughly 2,700 pages of FBI documents related to the Amerithrax case are now accessible to the public and have been posted to the FBI website at http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/amerithrax.htm under the Freedom of Information Act.
The Amerithrax Task Force, which was comprised of roughly 25 to 30 full-time investigators from the FBI, U.S. Postal Inspection Service and other law enforcement agencies, as well as federal prosecutors from the District of Columbia and the Justice Department’s Counterterrorism Section, expended hundreds of thousands of investigator work hours on this case. Their investigative efforts involved more than 10,000 witness interviews on six different continents, the execution of 80 searches and the recovery of more than 6,000 items of potential evidence during the course of the investigation. The case involved the issuance of more than 5,750 grand jury subpoenas and the collection of 5,730 environmental samples from 60 site locations.
Baltimore Letter Carrier Gets Prison For Stealing Over $100,000 In Treasury Checks
Last of 12 Co-Conspirators to be Sentenced in Scheme Using Phony Driver’s Licenses to Cash Stolen Checks
Baltimore, Maryland – U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Leonard Jenkins, age 27, of Baltimore, today to three years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for mail fraud, theft of mail and aggravated identity theft arising from the use of his position as a letter carrier to steal U.S. treasury checks. Judge Blake issued an order of restitution of $104,446,the amount of checks stolen.
The sentence was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Postal Inspector in Charge Daniel S. Cortez of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service – Washington Division; Special Agent in Charge Joanne Yarbrough of the U.S. Postal Service, Office of Inspector General; Special Agent in Charge Barbara Golden of the U.S. Secret Service – Baltimore Field Office; John Phillips, Acting Assistant Inspector General for
Investigations, U.S. Department of the Treasury – Office of Inspector General;Charles Willoughby, Inspector General, District of Columbia – Office of the Inspector General; and Special Agent in Charge Kathryn Jones, U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of Inspector General, Washington Regional Office.
According to Jenkins’s plea agreement, Jenkins was a letter carrier at the Druid Station post office in Maryland. From March 2006 to May 2007, Jenkins stole treasury checks that were to be delivered to recipients on his route and other carriers’ routes. In exchange for cash payments, Jenkins gave over $100,000 of the stolen checks to his conspirators, knowing that they would use fake identification documents to cash those checks at local check cashing establishments by posing as the intended recipients of the checks.
Twelve defendants have been convicted for their participation in this scheme and sentenced from two years to 75 months in prison. More than 50 individuals and businesses were victims of the scheme.
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein commended the United States Attorneys Office of the District of Columbia for their assistance in the case and praised Assistant United States Attorneys Tamera L. Fine and Emily Glatfelter, who prosecuted the case.
Postal Employee Charged With Theft of 450 Netflix Movies From Mail
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Press Release from the U.S. Department of Justice :
INDIANAPOLIS – Ricky L. Alsip, 53, Evansville, Indiana, was charged with theft of mail by postal employee, announced Timothy M. Morrison, U.S. Attorney, Southern District of Indiana, following an investigation by the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General.
The information alleges that Alsip stole approximately 450 DVD format Netflix movies that had been placed in the mail for delivery to Netflix customers in Evansville, Indiana.
According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd S. Shellenbarger, who is prosecuting the case for the government, Alsip faces a maximum of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. An initial hearing will be scheduled before a U.S. Magistrate Judge.
An information is only a charge and is not evidence of guilt. A defendant is presumed innocent and is entitled to a fair trial at which the government must prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.