A supervisor at the Crescent City post office is under investigation for theft of prescription drugs from coworkers and area veterans, according to court records.
Hollie Maready, 39, is suspected of using her position as supervisor of customer service for the U.S. Postal Service to steal pharmaceuticals from packages, coworkers, and private homes.
Maready hasn’t been charged with any crime.
Superior Court Judge Darren McElfresh authorized a search warrant of Maready’s home and car Sept. 9 after Del Norte County sheriff’s investigators outlined allegations against her by witnesses in an affidavit filed with the court.
Officials said the search warrant grew from a now three-year investigation into thefts of prescription painkillers from the mail.
An emotional Maready told the Triplicate his wife had become addicted to medication prescribed by her doctor for a shoulder injury. Maready said his wife has worked 17 years for the postal service and is well respected by her colleagues.
“Our agency received a number of complaints about packages that had been tampered with containing VA medications; we immediately began investigating this matter with the Veteran’s Affairs Office of Inspector General, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Crescent City Police Department, the Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office, and a Humboldt County Narcotics Task Force,” said Janet Roberson, assistant special agent in charge, U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General.
Maready was the “point of contact” during the initial investigation by the OIG, according to court records. The role gave her direct, unsupervised access to incoming packages of narcotic medications and knowledge of the surveillance methods investigators put in effect to catch the thief. According to Sgt. Richard Griffin of the Sheriff’s office, “no other employee knew everything.”
Post Office supervisor investigated for drug thefts
Why do they wait so long? And she kept stealing when she knew they were watching? What a POS, that’s MGT for you!
fire her, convict her……send her to Levenworth to break rock for road bed gravel! 99% of postal mismanagers have no college education……many are criminals!
just a slap on the wrist!!!! But if it were a Letter Carrier he would be in PRISON!!!
Okay, here’s another management upper echelon team member, as they refer to themselves in the highest and mightiest way caught stealing drugs from customers and co-workers. And to top it off, it takes the OIG three years to do anything about it. That’s about the same time it took them to nail the Pittsburgh, PA. postmaster for dealing narcotics through Express packages and threatening to kill supervisors under his command.
The ratio of management getting caught doing terrible rotten stuff as opposed to craft is somewhere around 2.5 to 1, by my estimates. That means if you took a sampling of 10 craft and 10 managers, for every one craft person busted, two or three managers will be.
That mathematical exercise is for the benefit of management.
And yet they want to micromanage us down to the molecule, showing they totally and completely distrust all of us, no matter our work records. That shouldn’t surprise, as management figures that since all their compadres are liars, cheats and backstabbers who can’t be trusted any farther than I can throw a refrigerator, then craft must be the same.
Yeah, there are some decent ones out there, but it’s still telling, and it’s way past time for an independent task force to dig, and dig deep, into why there are proportionately twice as many thieves, drug dealers and other lawbreakers in management, why they want to reduce service, screw up everything they put their hands on, and still give themselves bonuses in a service, not a business, that they flatly are not entitled to.
That nice bonus a manager receives is off the backs of craft who are doing their jobs. It’s skimming off our labor, and in my view it’s stealing. Nobody in management deserves to take home a couple grand or more a year because his or her office does well. They are number crunchers, they’re flooding the carrier craft, rural and city with new half price employees who are running like maniacs, have no training in proper forwarding or returning of mail, route maintenance, and some are so stupid they can’t even understand hold mail.
Of course a regular carrier wouldn’t get away with that crap. You think mail service is bad now, wait a few years until the last of the old farts who actually try to get the right mail in the right box are replaced by runners who only want to see how fast they can go, fuck the results.
Now , have to raise the workers pa y so they can afford the Boss ! What a group we have running this Grand Old USPS ! ! Ben Franklin must be proud ! ! !