10/22/2018 On Friday, October 19, 2018, the last of four defendants was sentenced for his role in a narcotics importation and distribution ring, operating in Miami-Dade and Osceola Counties, involving an analogue of the powerful opioid fentanyl, as well as n-ethylpentalone. Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Mark Selby, Special […]
CHICAGO — A federal jury in Chicago has convicted two U.S. Postal Service employees for scheming to deliver marijuana through the mail. MARVIN JONES and ANGELA WANSLEY worked at the Tinley Park Post Office. Over a five-month period in 2016, the pair intercepted parcels of marijuana and other controlled substances that had been mailed to […]
2/13/18 NEWARK, N.J. – A former U.S. Postal Service (USPS) mail carrier today admitted that he accepted cash bribes in return for intercepting and delivering parcels containing illegal narcotics, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. Leonard Gresham, 50, of Rahway, New Jersey, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Esther D. Salas in Newark federal court to […]
Former postal supervisor from Akron sentenced to three years in prison for stealing a kilo of methamphetamine out of the mail Two former U.S. Postal employees were sentenced to prison for stealing packages containing marijuana from the U.S. mail and then selling the drugs, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman. Rabih Kairouz, 29, of Akron, […]
10/19/2017 CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A former postal worker who stole methamphetamine from a package pleaded guilty today, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Turner Connolly, 25, of Charleston, entered his guilty plea to theft of mail by a postal employee. Connolly was a mail processing clerk who was employed at the South Charleston Post Office. […]
9/30/2016 LINCOLN (CBS13) – Two people have been arrested after a large marijuana grow in Lincoln was busted thanks to the help of the U.S. Postal Service. In July, the Placer County Sheriff’s Office Special Operations Unit received resident complaints of a pot grow at a home on Wise Road. Upon meeting with the owner, […]