A postal worker convicted of accepting money from a drug dealer to funnel packages of marijuana to drug dealer has been sentenced to three years of probation. Fred Rivers, 48, of Newark, also received one year of home confinement, according to court records. Rivers, who was fired by the U.S. Postal Service, will be allowed […]
5/22/17 Akron man sentenced to 12 years in prison, former letter carrier sentenced to three years for bringing methamphetamine to Ohio from California An Akron man was sentenced to 12 years in prison for mailing large shipments of methamphetamine from California to Ohio, and a former letter carrier was sentenced to more than three years […]
2/5/16 – A former Evansville postal service employee has received three years of federal probation for stealing mail with prescription painkillers intended for military veterans. Kevin R. Hicks, 55, appeared in U.S. District Court at Evansville on Thursday for sentencing. He pleaded guilty to three counts of mail theft in June. The medication was intended […]
October 19, 2015 Greenbelt, Maryland – U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced former letter carrier Takisha Cole, age 33, of Washington, D.C. today to 21 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute marijuana, use of a communications device to facilitate drug trafficking and bribery. The […]
March 14, 2015 FAIRBANKS, AK — Over a period of six years, hundreds of prescriptions mailed by Alaska pharmacies to veterans and villagers disappeared while in the custody of the U.S. Postal Service in Fairbanks. Patients waiting for morphine, oxycodone, hydrocodone and other drugs often found themselves in agony because their pain medications failed to show up in the mail, […]
BIRMINGHAM — A former U.S. Postal Service clerk in Tuscaloosa pleaded guilty today to stealing prescription painkillers from the mail and to breaking into the Skyland Post Office, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, Postal Service Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Max Eamiguel, of the Southern Area Field Office, and Postal Inspection […]
SAN FRANCISCO, July 28 (Reuters) – FedEx Corp has hired some of the hard-hitting attorneys who represented home run slugger Barry Bonds to defend against criminal allegations that FedEx knowingly shipped packages from illegal online pharmacies. FedEx was indicted earlier this month on 15 criminal counts, including conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. Senior managers at […]
BIRMINGHAM — A federal grand jury today indicted a former U.S. Postal Service clerk in Tuscaloosa on charges including stealing prescription painkillers from the mail, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, Postal Service Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Max Eamiguel, of the Southern Area Field Office, and Postal Inspection Service Team Leader […]