Former Letter Carrier sentenced to prison for delivering drugs and accepting bribes

Corruption of Letter Carriers a “Significant Vulnerability” for Postal Service 12.29.14 Greenbelt, Maryland – U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced former U.S. Postal Service letter carrier Devona Ursula Charley, age 27, of Washington, D.C., today to a year and a day in prison, followed by 6 months of home detention as part of three […]

Connecticut postal supervisor gets 3 years in prison for trafficking drugs stolen from mail

Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that EDWARD HOGAN, 38, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine and marijuana that he stole from the U.S. […]

Postal Service contractor faces embezzlement charge

A local U.S. Postal Service contractor was charged with felony embezzlement on Monday. Fields worked as a Highway Contract Route Carrier and was terminated on the day he was charged, said Lance Norrington, a public information officer with the Office of the Inspector General. While the warrant was issued Monday, Fields’ first appearance in court […]

Reward offered for armed robbery of mail carrier in Connecticut

The United States Postal Inspection Service is offering a reward for a man who robbed a postal carrier delivering mail in a Bridgeport housing project. The postal carrier was delivering mail at the PT Barnum Housing Project at 136 Saint Stephens Road in Bridgeport at 11 a.m. on Saturday when a man carrying a “sawed-off […]

California man sentenced for attempting to smuggle via USPS nearly 4 dozen protected turtles to Hong Kong

December 4, 2014 – LOS ANGELES, California – A San Gabriel man who attempted to smuggle nearly four dozen turtles from Southern California to Hong Kong has been sentenced to federal prison. Kwong Wa Cheung, 36, was sentenced Tuesday to two months in federal prison. Following the completion of the prison term, Cheung will be […]

After Postal Supervisor pleads guilty, brother gets prison for trafficking drugs stolen from mail

December 4, 2014 – Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JUSTIN HOGAN, 34, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine stolen from the U.S. […]

Mailing company employee gets prison for stealing $3.6 million worth of over-the-road containers from USPS

Stole 2,611 Containers With Replacement Cost of Over $3.6 Million Baltimore, Maryland – U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Aaron Kevin Howard, age 53, of Brooklyn, Maryland, today to seven years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to steal, and theft of, aluminum carts from the U.S. Postal Service. […]

Letter Carrier Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Plotting Robbery of Postal Contract Driver

11-21-2014 -ATLANTA – LaTonya Evans, a former United Stated Postal Service employee, has been sentenced to federal prison for participating in a conspiracy that culminated in the robbery and shooting of a postal truck driver on December 20, 2013, in Conley, Ga. “By providing her co-defendants with inside information, Evans enabled a robbery that nearly […]

Five JFK Airport workers accused of stealing over $27,000 in money orders from the mail

Defendants Allegedly Rifled Through International Mail Headed For Japan, Korea And Greece;Allegedly Deposited Stolen Money Orders Into Own Bank Accounts;Thefts Allegedly Totaled More Than $27,000 (October 23, 2014) Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown, together with United States Postal Inspector in Charge Philip R. Bartlett and Port Authority Police Department Chief Security Officer Joseph P. […]

Postal Clerk pleads guilty to stealing prescription drugs from mail, burglarizing post office

BIRMINGHAM — A former U.S. Postal Service clerk in Tuscaloosa pleaded guilty today to stealing prescription painkillers from the mail and to breaking into the Skyland Post Office, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, Postal Service Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Max Eamiguel, of the Southern Area Field Office, and Postal Inspection […]