Another Maine Postmaster Relief gets probation for stealing postal funds

August 8, 2016 Portland, Maine:  United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jayme L. Temoke, 29, of Lewiston, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to two years of probation for misappropriation of postal funds.  She was also ordered to pay $4,367 in restitution.  Temoke pleaded guilty […]

Montana Postal Worker charged with theft of postal funds

From the US Attorney’s Office, District of Montana Appearing before U.S. Magistrate Johnston in Great Falls, Montana on May 3, 2016 and entering a plea of Not Guilty: SHELLY DAWN PYEATT a 46-year-old resident of Melrose, appeared on charges of misappropriation of postal funds, and issuance of money orders without payments.  If convicted of the […]

Iowa Postmaster indicted on misappropriation charges

5/13/16 NORA SPRINGS – Nora Springs’s former postmaster has been charged with allegedly stealing from the postal service. A federal grand jury handed up an indictment charging DeAnn C. Lewman with two counts of misappropriate of postal funds and 42 counts of false entries. The indictment was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Cedar […]

Maryland Postal Worker Pleads Guilty to Embezzling $92,148

September 1, 2015 Baltimore, Maryland – Tonya Lucille Higgs, age 50, of Owings Mills, Maryland pleaded guilty today to misappropriation of postal funds. The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein and Special Agent in Charge Paul L. Bowman of the U.S. Postal Service, Office of […]

Michigan Postal Support Employee charged with embezzlement of $61,000

Dominique C. Garrett, a 24 year-old Postal Support Employee (PSE) at the Saline, Michigan Post Office, has been charged with misappropriation of  over $61,000 in postal funds.. The initial complaint ,filed back in January, contends Garrett stole the money between April-December 2014. In November 2014, postal officials noticed “irregularities” with bank deposits at the Saline […]

Missouri Postal Workers indicted for throwing away mail, stealing $5,000

Postal Workers in Warrensburg, North Kansas City Indicted KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced two postal workers were indicted by a federal grand jury today, in separate and unrelated cases, for stealing thousands of pieces of mail and for stealing money from a cash drawer. […]

West Virginia USPS contract station clerk convicted of stealing money

Morgantown woman convicted of stealing government money CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA Samantha Christopher, 35, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was convicted in federal court today of misappropriating government money, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced. An investigation by the United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General revealed that throughout late 2013 and 2014, Christopher […]

Postal Worker charged with misappropriation of postal funds

Clearfield postal worker accused of taking money JOHNSTOWN – United States Attorney David J. Hickton announces that a criminal information has been filed in federal court in Johnstown charging a U.S. Postal Service employee with misappropriation of postal funds. The one-count information named Christina M. Belko, aka Christina M. Sopic, 28, of 11226 Krebs Highway, […]

Pennsylvania Postal Worker gets 6 months prison for stealing $55K in money orders and cash

PITTSBURGH – A former Postal Service employee was sentenced today in federal court to six months imprisonment, three years supervised release and restitution of $55,362.90 on her conviction of misappropriation of postal funds by a postal employee, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today. Senior United States District Judge Maurice B. Cohill imposed sentence […]