11/27/18 ATLANTA – The last defendant of a group of 16 U.S. Postal Service letter carriers and clerks from across the Atlanta area was sentenced to federal prison for accepting bribes to deliver packages of cocaine – two kilograms or more at a time – in a wide-reaching undercover operation. The defendants were willing to […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – September 19, 2018 – Mark Shankle, 28, of Nashville, Tennessee, was sentenced Monday to 15 months in prison for paying a bribe to a public official, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran of the Middle District of Tennessee. Shankle was indicted in March and pleaded guilty on June 11, 2018. According to court documents, […]
8/30/2017 ATLANTA, GA– In three separate federal indictments unsealed on Tuesday August 29, 2017, 16 U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employees working in locations across the metro-Atlanta area have been charged with accepting bribes to deliver packages of kilogram-quantities of cocaine in a wide-reaching sting operation. “Postal employees are entrusted to perform a vital service as […]
McALLEN, Texas – A former U.S. Postal Service (USPS) carrier has been ordered to federal prison for receiving bribe money in exchange for providing addresses of postal ballot recipients, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Noe Olvera, a 44-year-old resident of Mission, pleaded guilty March 7, 2017, admitting he accepted $1,000 for providing the addresses […]
BIRMINGHAM – A former postal carrier pleaded guilty this week in federal court to accepting a bribe to deliver marijuana in the U.S. mail as part of a conspiracy to distribute the drug, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and U.S. Postal Inspector Frank Dyer. DEANN MARCHETT DIXON STEVENSON, 43, of Birmingham, entered her […]
Postal Employee Convicted of Soliciting Bribes to provide addresses of customers receiving ballots 3/7/17 McALLEN, Texas – A former U.S. Postal Service (USPS) carrier has entered a guilty plea to receiving bribe money in exchange for providing addresses of postal ballot recipients, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Noe Olvera, a 43-year-old resident of Mission, admitted […]
12/9/16 McALLEN, Texas – A Mission man and employee of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has been taken into custody on charges he accepted more than $1,000 in bribes, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Noe Olvera, 43, was arrested today upon his arrival at work at the USPS facility in McAllen. He is expected to make […]
June 15, 2016 Greenbelt, Maryland – U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Barbara Murphy, age 52, of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, today to 10 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for bribing a contracting officer with the U.S. Postal Service in exchange for favorable treatment in connection with the awarding […]
Greenbelt, Maryland – Barbara Murphy, 52, of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, pleaded guilty today to bribing a former contracting officer with the U.S. Postal Service in exchange for favorable treatment in connection with the awarding of contracts to deliver the mail. The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland […]
Last month a 16-year veteran New York letter carrier pleaded guilty to his role in a drug distribution ring. Today, a second letter carrier also admitted to accepting payments to carrying boxes of drugs shipped to specific addresses. her federal charges of accepting bribes to deliver packages after he was implicated in a drug trafficking […]