Kentucky Trio indicted for stealing over $500,000 in checks and money orders

Kentucky Trio Facing Federal Charges For Mail Theft NASHVILLE, Tenn. – November 20, 2019 – An 11-count indictment returned last week charged three individuals from Trenton, Kentucky with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and theft of mail, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee. Adam Perrelli, 41, Kaitlin Patterson, 30, and […]

Connecticut Postal Worker, Accomplice Charged with Cashing Over $60,000 in Stolen Postal Money Orders

9/20/18 John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Matthew Modafferi, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Postal Service, Office of Inspector General, today announced that, on September 18, 2018, a federal grand jury in New Haven returned a five-count indictment charging JAMES LEBEL, 40, of no certain address, and […]

How did postal worker, friends pull off a $100,000 money order scheme?

CAMDEN – A former postal worker escaped prison for orchestrating a scheme to cash stolen money orders, but his middlemen weren’t so fortunate. A federal judge has sentenced the last of three accomplices to prison, ordering Anthony Bell, 39, of Philadelphia to spend a year and a day in custody for his role in the […]

New Jersey mailman sentenced to home confinement, ordered to pay back nearly $100,000 in stolen postal money

7/24/2018 A former South Jersey mailman was sentenced to eight months’ home confinement and ordered to pay back nearly $100,000 in losses caused by his part in an operation that cashed in money orders stolen from the Postal Service, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday.  Marc Saunders, 40, of Sicklerville, appeared in court Tuesday morning before U.S. […]

New Orleans Man Sentenced to Probation for Conspiracy to Alter U.S. Postal Money Orders

4/18/2018 U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JARVIS WHEELER, age 29, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced to 36 months of probation, which included eight months of home incarceration, by United States District Court Judge Sarah S. Vance after the defendant pleaded guilty to conspiracy to alter U.S. Postal money orders. According to the […]

USPS subcontractor sentenced to 39 days for stealing Postal Money Orders

Bangor, Maine:  United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Brandon Knox, 38, of Fairfield, Maine was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by U.S. Magistrate Judge John C. Nivison to 39 days in prison and one year of supervised release for stealing Postal Money Orders.  He was also ordered to pay $485 in restitution.  […]

New Orleans Man Sentenced for Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud

11/30/17 Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CORTEZ THOMPSON, age 34, of New Orleans, was sentenced yesterday after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud.  U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan sentenced THOMPSON to three years probation.  According to court documents, from in or about December 2012 and continuing though in or […]

Former New York Postal Worker sentenced for stealing gift cards, $10,000 in money orders

10/10/2017 ALBANY, NEW YORK – Naisha Wiley, 35, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced today to a three-year term of probation for stealing $10,000 in money orders from the United States Postal Service (USPS). The announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, Eileen Neff, Special Agent in Charge of the Northeast […]

Postal Worker Indicted for Using Money Order Sales to Steal USPS Funds

8/31/2017 BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – A federal grand jury today indicted a former postal clerk for corrupting the sale of U.S. Postal Money Orders for her personal benefit, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and U.S. Postal Inspector Frank Dyer. An indictment filed in U.S. District Court charges MITESHIA SHONTA PRITCHETT, 33, of Bessemer, with two […]

Massachusetts Postmaster pleads guilty to stealing approximately $31,000

BOSTON – The former Postmaster of the U.S. Postal Service Post Offices in Blackstone and Jefferson, Mass., pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Worcester to stealing approximately $31,000 from the U.S. Postal Service. Carlitos Molina, 36, pleaded guilty to one count of misappropriating postal funds. U.S. District Court Judge Timothy H. Hillman scheduled sentencing […]