COLUMBUS, Ohio – A former United States Postal Carrier was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 24 months in prison for stealing mail parcels that contained narcotics and then selling those narcotics in his neighborhood. Ricky Lee Harris Germany, 33, of Columbus, pleaded guilty in September 2019 to one count of conspiring to possess […]
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that a former postal employee who participated in a scheme to ship and distribute marijuana which was mailed from California to Huntington pled guilty in federal court. Carl Andrew Varnum, 49, entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute marijuana. “16 pounds of marijuana delivered […]
12/17/2019 RICHMOND, Va. – A Richmond man was sentenced today to 13 months in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for packages believed to contain marijuana that had been sent through the United States mails. According to court documents, Christopher Grant, 59, accepted multiple bribes over a nearly one-year period from several different individuals while […]
11/19/19 HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Two Huntington men who participated in a scheme to mail marijuana from California to Huntington over a period of several years were sentenced yesteday, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. James Waylon Molinaro ,44, was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison after previously entering a guilty plea to possession with […]
Four Postal Employees Indicted for Various Crimes in Connection with the Distribution of Marijuana United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that four employees of the United States Postal Service were indicted for various crimes in connection with the distribution of marijuana. On November 27, 2018, Unterria J. Rogers, […]
9/24/18 NEWARK, N.J. – A U.S. Postal Service (USPS) mail carrier was indicted today on charges that he accepted cash bribes in return for intercepting and delivering parcels containing illegal narcotics and conspiring to defraud the United States, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. Fred Rivers, 46, of Newark, was charged by indictment with receiving bribes […]
PHILADELPHIA — United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that a second U.S. Postal carrier was sentenced to prison today for taking bribes in exchange for delivering packages containing marijuana to drug dealers. Steven C. Williams, 43, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 15 months’ imprisonment. One of Williams’ co-conspirators, U.S. Postal carrier Felicia Charleston, […]
7/20/2018 PHILADELPHIA – U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Tafari Riley, of Bala Cynwyd, was sentenced today to 87 months in federal prison for bribing two U.S. mail carriers to deliver packages containing marijuana to various locations in West Philadelphia. From April through December 2016, Riley, 26, corruptly paid two United States mail carriers, […]
7/19/2018 NEWARK, N.J. – A former U.S. Postal Service (USPS) mail handler today admitted stealing approximately 16 packages containing marijuana, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. Akeem Cauthen, 30, of Newark, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton in Newark federal court to an information charging him with one count of theft of mail. […]
7/11/2018 TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A former U.S. Postal Service worker has been sentenced to a five-month prison term for her part in a scheme that involved stealing marijuana from packages at a mail sorting facility in Oklahoma. The Tulsa World reports that 47-year-old Laura Mae Campbell was sentenced Wednesday. Police records indicate that the […]