FORT WORTH, Texas — A former carrier for the U.S. Postal Service, who pleaded guilty in October 2013 to one count of possession of stolen mail, was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Fort Worth, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
Hubert Lavell McDonald, 42, of Fort Worth, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Terry R. Means to 30 months in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $400,000 in restitution to Cash America International, Inc. (CAI). Judge Means ordered that McDonald surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on March 10, 2014.
According to documents filed in the case, from June 2011 and December 2012, McDonald stole jewelry items mailed from CAI to the company’s corporate address in Fort Worth.
On March 9, 2012, special agents with the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG) executed a search warrant at McDonald’s residence. Agents found a gold Bulova watch belonging to CAI that McDonald admitted he had stolen from his mail route. Additionally, during the search, agents found one gold “Joe Rodeo” watch belonging to CAI and $8,000 in cash proceeds from the sale of other mail matter that had been stolen.
The case was investigated by the U.S. Postal Service OIG. Assistant U.S. Attorney Chris Wolfe prosecuted.
Here is the previous story and video on this case:
NORTH TEXAS (CBS 11 NEWS) – An estimated $450,000 in jewelry, stones and precious metals that disappeared in the mail, has been connected to a U.S. Postal Service delivery truck driver in Fort Worth.
A federal judge accepted a guilty plea from Hubert McDonald this week, after an investigation that lasted more than two years.
Federal court documents say packages sent to Fort Worth from Cash America pawn shops all over the country started disappearing in June of 2011. The packages were never seen again once they left the USPS Processing and Distribution Center on Mark IV Parkway. Investigators discovered McDonald was the truck driver on duty when the packages disappeared.
Between August 2011 and January 2012, investigators found 29 other pawn transactions. In that time McDonald deposited $42,400 into his bank account, while making just $16,681 from his job at the post office.
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No problem…his job will be waiting for him when he gets out courtesy of his NALC steward. In fact I’m sure his overtime will be equalized during his “absence.” What a country…what a job!
re Lu, I know.
Never said it was PR’s fault.
Sounds like a contract truck driver, at $16k a year.
Not even a true USPS employee, but a contracted one, if so.
Yes, I noticed the salary…. Initially, I was ready to identify him as a contract driver until I digged a little further.
If I discover anything different I will definitely change the title.
Nice sensational journalism.
A “delivery truck driver” is not the same as a mail carrier.
The courts records say he is a carrier. The delivery truck driver are the words of an article–not PostalReporter.