California man gets prison for conspiring to commit postal crimes

July 7, 2014 FRESNO, Calif. —Michael Chase Stafford, 29, of Modesto, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill to two years and nine months in prison for conspiring to commit postal crimes, according to United States Attorney Benjamin Wagner. According to court documents, Stafford conspired with others to steal mail from authorized […]

Postal Worker indicted for stealing drugs from mail, breaking into Post Office

BIRMINGHAM — A federal grand jury today indicted a former U.S. Postal Service clerk in Tuscaloosa on charges including stealing prescription painkillers from the mail, 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 Service Team Leader […]

Two Connecticut Men charged with using mobile banking app for postal money order fraud

Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTHONY STERLIN CANTAVE, 34, and VENUS VERGES, 33, both of Danbury, were arrested today on an indictment charging them with participating in a conspiracy involving the theft of monies from the U.S. Postal Service.  The indictment was returned by a federal grand […]

USPS OIG Audit: Postal Inspection Service Mail Covers Program

This report presents the results of our audit of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service Mail Covers Program (Project Number 13YG035HR000). The objective of this self-initiated audit was to determine whether the U.S. Postal Service and the Postal Inspection Service are effectively and efficiently handling mail covers according to postal and federal requirements. Specifically, we assessed […]

Updated: Two Mississippi Men Indicted for stealing USPS equipment

Updated December 4, 2014– GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A Gulfport father and son have been sentenced for stealing aluminum carts from the U.S. Postal Service and selling them as scrap. Federal prosecutors say 51-year-old John Wendell Boyles was sentenced Monday to 57 months imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release. They say 24-year-old Nicholas […]

Texas USPS Contract Employee Indicted For Theft Of Over $478,000

Marvis Charles Box, age 67, of Converse, TX, stands charged with stealing an estimated $478,000 of United States Postal Service equipment announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and U.S. Postal Inspection Service Inspector in Charge Robert Wemyss, Houston Division. A federal grand jury indictment, returned on May 7, 2014, and unsealed following Box’s arrest on […]

New Mexico man pleads guilty to defrauding USPS out of $366,000

ALBUQUERQUE – James H. Clark, Jr., 61, of Las Cruces, N.M., pleaded guilty this afternoon to an indictment charging him with possession with intent to use forged and counterfeited postage meter stamps under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Clark, the owner and operator of a business selling books through internet websites, was […]

Owner Of NJ Bulk Mailing Company Gets 18 Months In Prison For Multimillion-Dollar Fraud

NEWARK, N.J. – One of the operators of Clevett Worldwide Mailers LLC, a Succasunna, N.J., bulk mailing house, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for defrauding clients of more than $1 million through a fraudulent bulk-mailing scheme in which he shredded millions of pieces of mail rather than delivering them, U.S. Attorney Paul […]

Georgia Postal Worker Charged for Role in Planning Conley Postal Robbery

ATLANTA – LaTonya Evans has been indicted by a federal grand jury on conspiracy and armed robbery charges for her role in planning a postal robbery in Conley, Ga., on December 20, 2013—a robbery that resulted in the near-fatal shooting of a postal truck driver by two other defendants charged with Evans in the same […]

Three N.J., residents charged in conspiracy to steal checks from mail and defraud banks in new jersey, pennsylvania and delaware

CAMDEN, N.J. – A woman and two men from Camden were charged today for their alleged participation in a scheme in which they stole business checks from the U.S. Mail in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, altered them, and cashed them using a series of conspirators, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Ivory Vernon, 29, […]