Postal Support Employee (PSE) and siblings posted some of the stolen sports trading cards online to sell.
1/29/16 BOSTON – A Dorchester woman pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to stealing 23 sports trading cards valued at $68,668 from the U.S. Mail while working as a clerk at the U.S. Post Office in Jamaica Plain.
Venecia McLaren, 30, pleaded guilty to one count of theft of mail by a postal service employee. U.S. District Court Senior Judge Mark L. Wolf scheduled sentencing for April 25, 2016.
On Jan. 21, 2015, McLaren stole a Priority Express Mail package containing sports trading cards from the Post Office in Roxbury. McLaren then gave her sister, Ophelia McLaren, from Queens, N.Y., a portion of the stolen cards to sell with the understanding that the two would share the proceeds. McLaren and her sister then posted some of the stolen cards for sale online. In late March and early April 2015, McLaren sold nine of the cards to a good faith purchaser. Around that same time, federal agents established undercover web-based accounts to communicate with Venecia McLaren and her sister. On April 9, 2015, after communicating with agents, McLaren sold three of the cards to an undercover agent in Boston and offered to sell a fourth. She was placed under arrest. On that same date, McLaren’s sister and brother, Lennica McLaren, were arrested after they attempted to sell four of the stolen trading cards to an undercover agent in New York.
Ophelia and Lennica McLaren have since pleaded guilty to larceny charges in Queens County Criminal Court, New York.
The charge of mail theft by a postal employee provides for a sentence of no greater than five years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000 and restitution.Actual sentences for federal crimes are typically less than the maximum penalties.Sentences are imposed by a federal district court judge based upon the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz; Eileen Neff, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Postal Service, Office of the Inspector General, Northeast Area Field Office; and Boston Police Commissioner William Evans, made the announcement today. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney William F. Bloomer of Ortiz’s Major Crimes Unit.
source: US Attorney’s Office of Massachusetts
PSE=please steal everything! good GOD like every other govt agency…..rotten to the core. hitlery rotten clit’n is a good role model for govt criminals.
MHAs CCRs PSEs should be outlawed. Low wages. long hours, dealing
with tools and thugs, threatened with termination. Hire full timers.
Fire the tools and thugs and free up millions. These new hires
have no loyalty to the USPS and who can blame them. Just a bunch
of higher paid casuals.
I totally agree with tookie1 why the unions has allowed PSES AND MHAS IS MORE THAN LIKELY BACKROOM BARGAINING BUT THIS HAS TURNED OUT TO BE A DIASTER AT THE LANDC ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY ARE ALLOWED TO SUPERVISE DOCK CLERK ETC ITS A CASE OF TOO MUCH TO SOON IT GOES TO THEIR HEADS AND MANAGEMENT ENCOURAGES THEM TO HAVE THAT KIND OF MINDSET IT HAS BASICALLY PITTED THE NON CAREER FORCE AGAINST THE CAREER FORCE MOST DISCIPLINARY ACTION FOR THE UNIONS INVOLVE LAZY BELLIGERENT NON CAREERS WHO WALK AROUND ON THERE CELL PHONES AND OUR MDO (ACTING) LOOKS THE OTHER WAY BECAUSE SHE NEEDS THEM TO SUPERVISE
This is really smart thinking. Posting stolen property on the web. It’s like the tale of one idiot (and this may be a myth but entirely possible) who tried to rob a bank and the teller asked him for his driver’s license and he gave it to her. Revoke these moron’s breeding and voting privileges forever! And quit making craft workers look bad. We want to be above the behavior of crooked thieves in management like that postal inspector in San Jose, don’t we?
This is what happens when the Union agrees to allow the USPS to hire PSEs at lower wages than they can make at McDonalds. The temptation to steal the mail skyrockets when the rewards outweigh the threat of losing a good paying job.