Former rural carrier sentenced to probation for stealing credit cards from mail along his route

Columbus OH: A former mail carrier who stole credit cards and blank checks from postal customers and used them to spend  $28, 976 was sentenced today to three years probation, He could  have been sentenced to five years in prison and fined $250,000. Arlie O. Ruff, 67, was tripped up when he used his Kroger […]

Former Ohio mailman linked to stolen credit cards

Warning to would-be crooks: Don’t try to rack up Kroger fuel points when you’re buying stuff with a stolen credit card. That’s what apparently led postal investigators to former mail carrier Arlie O. Ruff of Bexley. Ruff, 67, was in U.S. District Court yesterday on charges that he used credit cards from mail stolen along […]