California Postal Worker Convicted Of Paying For Money Orders With Counterfeit Bills

OAKLAND, Calif. – Emmanuel Odion Esezobor was convicted by a federal jury yesterday of one count of theft of public money and seven counts of passing counterfeit U.S. obligations, United States Attorney Melinda Haag, Special Agent in Charge Nichole Cooper of the Postal Service Office of Inspector General’s Pacific Area Field Office, and Special Agent […]

Florida Letter Carrier Admits Role in Scheme To Steal Tax Refund Checks from Mail

Tampa, Florida – United States Attorney Robert E. O’Neill announces that Victor Manual Pena (42, Bronx, New York) today pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit theft or receipt of stolen mail. Pena faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. In addition, Carmelo Rosado, Jr. (40, Orlando) has signed a plea agreement, whereby […]

Former Postmaster Relief Sentenced for Embezzling Money Orders

ERIE, Pa. – A resident of Titusville, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to one year probation and ordered to make restitution in the amount of $1,339.94 on her conviction of misappropriation of postal funds, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today. Senior United States District Judge Maurice B. Cohill, Jr. imposed the […]

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 Massachusetts Postal Employees Charged With Selling Drugs While On Duty

BOSTON – Two United States Postal Service employees, along with two others, were indicted on drug trafficking charges. GERARD HARRINGTON, 48, of Stoneham; JOHN THIBEDEAU, 48, of Waltham; SEAN WILLIAMSON, 41, of Peabody; and WILLIAM ZULUAGA, 57, of East Boston, were indicted on charges of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of […]

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.