"... United States Attorney Jacqueline Romero announced that the two workers will have to pay back hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Jaire Chance, 27, of Philadelphia, has agreed to a consent judgment of $100,399.
Robert Day, 42, of Center Valley, Lehigh County, has agreed to a consent judgment of $110,610.
Officials said the repayment will resolve allegations that the two violated the False Claims Act by improperly seeking pandemic unemployment assistance...." Source: www.wgal.com
"Former Utica Avenue postal worker Jaleesa Wallace, 31, was sentenced to two years six months in prison — and ordered to pay $4 million in restitution — following her conviction of postal theft, said U.S. Attorney Breon Peace
“The defendant exploited her position with one of our most trusted institutions, the United States Postal Service ..." Source: patch.com
"...Melrose police said the robbery happened the afternoon of Dec. 10 on Orchard Lane, where the two juveniles were sitting on the steps to a home when the USPS worker arrived in a vehicle.
According to investigators, the letter carrier delivered mail to a home on the street and as she approached the driver's door of her truck, the two juveniles approached her, pointed an airsoft pistol at her and showed her a knife ..." Source: www.wcvb.com
"... The shooting happened about 7:30 p.m. September 4, 2019 in the employee parking lot at the Memphis Priority Mail Annex in the 3300 block of Jet Cove. Investigators say Jones shot the worker several times, then took off with a woman..." Source: www.localmemphis.com
"... Thanks to a forwarding address printed on bank correspondence and some help from the local post office, she later discovered their mail was traveling to a low-income housing complex about five miles away from their home, though she was unable to narrow the address down to one of the dozens of units. Amy would describe at a 2017 FTC conference how “quick and easy” it was to change a person’s address without much personal information..." Source: www.marketwatch.com
"...They each received sentences between three and nine years, federal officials said.
Federal agents first learned of the crimes in 2015 while investigating a drug trafficking organization in Atlanta ..." Source: www.ajc.com
"... According to the indictment, between from 2007-2017, some of the checks Sikes stole outright and he took others that were made out to the U.S. Postmaster to the main post office downtown and bought rolls of stamps -- $3.6 million worth of stamps -- and sold them to..." Source: www.news4jax.com
"...As it relates to audits, Pappaioanou told Federal News Radio that the OIG has used data analytics to make recommendations to the USPS to prevent future problems. For example, the office detected several local post offices that, rather suspiciously, would always have perfect financial counts ..." Source: fedtechmagazine.com
"...In early February, agents recovered counterfeit postal "arrow" keys in various stages of completion, illicit narcotics, 500 rounds of ammunition, a .22 caliber semiautomatic pistol and U.S. mail belonging to people other than Jeffries at the home.
Jeffries told investigators he stole mail over the past year and made counterfeit postal keys in an effort to find gift cards he could steal ..." Source: www.ksat.com
San Antonio man who carjacked and shot postal worker gets 20 years for crime spree
"... Sebastian told the judge that on the morning of Feb. 11, 2017, she arrived an hour earlier to a cluster of mailboxes in Spring Branch, north of San Antonio, to deliver mail when “the Holy Spirit” told her to look up. She saw a man, later identified as A’Hearn, put on a “scary mask” in preparation to rob her. The pair struggled over her cellphone, and A’Hearn shot her once in one leg, shattering her femur as the bullet went into her other leg. She had been a postal employee for more than four years. That morning was to be her last day delivering mail. She was about to start a new job with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, she said..." Source: www.expressnews.com
US Postal worker killed in shooting on Dallas highway
"...A postal truck driver was shot to death early Monday on a highway near downtown Dallas, officials said.
The Dallas Police Department said in a news release the shooting happened around 2:20 a.m. in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 30 near the interchange with Interstate 35E ..." Source: www.foxnews.com
Convicted mail bomber found in Beaver County hospital
"... McFadden was charged with sending a bomb-rigged jewelry box to a woman in New York whom he had not seen in 14 years, according to published reports at the time of his arrest in 1985.
The 3-inch pipe bomb exploded Oct. 8, 1985, while being processed at the Postal Service bulk mail center in Marshall..." Source: triblive.com
Former Postal Service letter carrier gets 15 years in mail truck robbery
"..."By providing her co-defendants with inside information Evans enabled a robbery that nearly killed her co-worker. Evans used her knowledge of the Postal Service for personal gain and violated the trust of the public and her fellow postal workers." ..." Source: www.bizjournals.com
Three Houston men head to prison for robbery of postal vehicle
"... The three men had received information that the vehicle contained more than $2 million in cash and precious metals. Evidence at trial showed that the three men had been provided with a description of the vehicle, the route it would be taking and the time the vehicle would leave the post office in downtown Houston...." Source: www.yourhoustonnews.com
Video of Birmingham postal worker throwing packages into a ravine leads to resignation
"...The poster, who said a co-worker's boyfriend actually filmed the incident, said the incident occurred on 17th Avenue South on Birmingham's Southside – a very hilly area overlooking Birmingham's skyline. ..." Source: www.al.com
Springfield Police Arrest Two in Connection with Fabricated Robbery
"...Springfield Police say they arrested the Springfield Post Office employee, who originally claimed to be the victim, as David Allen Rice, 20, and his sister Courtney Diane Goines, 20. ..." Source: www.wmbb.com
Postal Supervisor Intercepted Cocaine-Containing Package, Took It Home
"...Authorities say the federal grand jury in Hartford returned the indictment Wednesday on the charge of embezzlement of mail by a postal service employee. ..." Source: cbslocal.com
"...A 59-year-old United States Postal Service driver was held at gunpoint Saturday afternoon and forced to hand over his delivery truck...." Source: www.13wham.com
"... A U.S. postal inspector has started investigating a job scheme that appears to have used recruits to target post offices in the Grand Rapids area...." Source: www.woodtv.com
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