TAMPA — In the spring of 2012, four diamond rings went into an Express Mail box bound for Huntington, N.Y.

Instead, one wound up in a Brandon pawn shop and three were kept by a truck driver whose company contracts with the U.S. Postal Service to transport mail, according to a federal court document filed Tuesday.

Kyle Joseph Hebenstreit, 41, faces a criminal charge of opening mail without authority, punishable by up to a year in prison.

He also admitted theft of up to 13 baseball and football collector cards, including three stolen around Christmas as he sat in his truck at the Tampa Logistics and Distribution Center, while Postal Service employees loaded the trailer, the plea agreement states,

Hebenstreit was a contract driver for Midwest Transport Inc. in Tampa.

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