US Virgin Islands Postal Worker Arrested, Charged with Embezzlement of $29,000 in Postal Funds

St. Thomas, USVI – Rosemarie Peltier, age 43, was arrested today and charged with misappropriation of postal funds, embezzlement of government property, and false entries and reports of monies and securities. Peltier appeared in District Court before District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez and was released from custody after posting a $10,000 unsecured bond. According […]

Brooklyn Postal Supervisor Charged With Stealing Thousands Of Dollars Worth of Professional Sports Cards From The Mail

Jerry Rice, Albert Pujols, Jackie Robinson, Lou Gehrig, Larry Bird, Mint Beckett Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Rafael A. Medina, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Postal Service, Office of Inspector General, Northeast Area Field Office, announced the arrest of a United States Postal […]

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 […]

Maine Postmaster Relief pleads guilty to stealing $3437 in postal funds to pay taxes

The Postmaster Relief confessed that she took $3,437.42 in Postal Service funds because of ongoing tax problems. She added that money from stamp and money order sales were used to pay her personal bills and taxes. Press Release from the US Attorney’s office Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Nicole […]

Montana postal contractor gets probation for failing to deposit $70K in employee benefit plan

A  Bozeman, Montana postal contractor has been sentenced to five years on probation and ordered to repay just over $70,000 for failing to deposit money into an employee benefit plan. According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Racicot: Munson owned DDCS Express Inc., which contracted with the U.S. Postal Service to operate mail routes. Munson was […]

Wisconsin Rural Carrier sentenced to probation for mail theft

A former Janesville postal carrier was sentenced Tuesday for stealing mail, according to a state Department of Justice release. Kristy Hollibrush, 43, was sentenced to two years’ probation and $1,225 in restitution for the theft, officials said. Hollibrush pleaded guilty to the charge Nov. 13. Hollibrush worked as a rural letter carrier with the U.S. […]

9 Arrests to Date in 2010 murder and robbery of Florida letter carrier

Parton Homicide Investigation: 9 Arrests to Date On Thursday, April 3, 2014, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service arrested Emmanuel Alphonse and Steven Toussaint who are accused of laundering money obtained from stolen identity tax refund fraud. These latest arrests bring the total number to nine for subjects charged in connection with the murder of Miami […]

Florida Letter Carrier Charged in identity theft tax refund scheme and mail theft

Yesterday, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, joined by members of the Strike Force, announced “Twenty-Five Defendants Charged in Separate Schemes That Resulted in Thousands of Identities Stolen and Millions of Dollars in Identity Theft Tax Filings.” The cases announced yesterday include: United States v. Marlon Maikel Palacios, Case […]

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, […]

Newark Man Sentenced To 57 Months In Prison For Scheme To Steal Checks From Mail

Deposited Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars into Personal Accounts NEWARK, N.J. – A Newark man was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for his role in a scheme to steal personal checks from the U.S. Mail and fraudulently endorse and deposit them into personal checking accounts, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Karron Hinton-Lovelace, […]