Former Oklahoma Postmaster Pleads Guilty to Embezzling $642,808 From Bulk Mail Customers

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – Elgin’s former postmaster has pleaded guilty to theft of public funds and filing a false tax return. U.S. Attorney Sanford Coats says 63-year-old James E. Draheim of Elgin entered the guilty pleas on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Oklahoma City. Coats says that between October 2005 and September 2009, Draheim […]

Ohio Postal Employee Charged With Theft Of Mail

Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, today announced that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Brenda Moore, age 48, of East Cleveland, Ohio, with theft of mail by a postal employee and unauthorized opening of mail by a postal employee. The indictment charges that on June […]

Former Missouri Postmaster Pleads Guilty To Theft

A Columbia postmaster arrested in March on suspicion of attempting to steal clothing and sunglasses from a Columbia department store pleaded guilty Tuesday. Joyce M. Herron, 55, of Mexico, Mo., entered a plea of guilty to misdemeanor stealing in city court. She was sentenced to two days in the Boone County Jail and was permitted […]

Alabama postal worker gets 5 years probation for dumping 371 pieces of mail

 MOBILE, Ala – Another Mobile-area postal worker was sentenced last week for dumping mail on her route. U.S. District Judge Kristi DuBose sentenced Cynthia Dronet, 30, to five years’ probation, with the first six months under home confinement. Dronet became the latest in a string of local postal workers who have been caught stealing or simply […]

Former Texas Postal Employee Charged With Theft Of Mail Matter

United States Attorney’s Office Southern District of Texas September 9, 2010 (LAREDO, Texas) – Raul Cavazos, 62, of Edinburgh, Texas, has been arrested as a result of the return of a sealed indictment which charges him with theft of mail matter by a U.S. Postal Service employee, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today.  […]

Former Texas USPS Contract Carrier Arrested For Mail Theft

September 2, 2010 (HOUSTON) – Linda Taylor, 50, of Coldspring, Texas, has been arrested as a result of the return of a one-count indictment charging her with theft of U.S. Mail, United States Attorney Jose Angel Moreno announced today.  Indicted by a Houston grand jury on Aug. 19, 2010, Taylor surrendered to agents with the […]

Former Maryland Postmaster Pleads Guilty To Stealing More Than $50,000 In Stamps

GREENBELT, MD. — Prosecutors say a former postmaster has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $60,000 in stamps from the post office where he worked. Fifty-six-year-old Gilbert Ennis of Lanham entered the plea Tuesday. He will be sentenced Dec. 6 and has agreed to pay restitution from his federal retirement account. According to his plea agreement, […]

Former Minto ND Postmaster Sentenced For Embezzlement

A former postal employee in Minto, N.D., charged with embezzling money has been sentenced to a year of probation and 75 hours of community service. Laura Satterlund, 34, has paid back nearly $4,900 to the U.S. Postal Service, according to minutes from Monday’s sentencing in federal court. Full story: Former Minto, N.D., postmaster sentenced for […]

Former Postal Employee Sentenced to 25 Months For Stealing Over $130,000 in Treasury Checks from Mail

Press Release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia WASHINGTON – Shareen Wilson, 42, a former mail carrier with the United States Postal Service (“USPS”), was sentenced today to 25 months of incarceration and ordered to pay $134,416.27 in restitution for her role in a scheme to steal United States and District […]