Missouri Postmaster Gets Probation For Misappropriating Postal Funds

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the former postmaster for the Republic, Mo., Post Office was sentenced in federal court today for misappropriating postal funds. Donna Rippee, 64, of Republic, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard E. Dorr to three years probation. The court […]

Vermont Postmaster Gets Probation In Mail Case

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A former Vermont postmaster has been fined $250 and put on probation for one year for obstructing the mail. Frank J. Strzelec, former officer in charge of the Center Rutland Post Office, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of obstructing the passage of mail. Federal prosecutors say that in late 2009, […]

Louisiana Postal Clerk Charged With Stealing Over $114,000

MARY MADER, age 48, a resident of Harahan, LA, was charged today in a one-count bill of information with misappropriation of postal funds relating to the U. S. Postal Service, announced U.S. Attorney Jim Letten. According to the bill of information, from approximately July 1, 2008 through July 14, 2010, while employed as a U. […]

Letter Carrier Found Guilty Of Theft Of Mail In Cairo, Georgia

Press Release Oct 13, 2010 United States Attorney Michael J.  Moore announced that on October 12, 2010 in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, in the Albany Division,  RENEE GARRETT, age 60, a resident of Cairo, Georgia, was found guilty after a jury trial of three counts of  Theft of […]

Alabama Postal Workers Indicted For Mail Theft, Embezzlement

FEDERAL GRAND JURY RETURNS EIGHT INDICTMENTS FOR MAIL THEFT, EMBEZZLEMENT OR DELAY OF DELIVERY September 29, 2010 BIRMINGHAM – A federal grand jury today returned eight indictments charging U.S. Postal Service employees and others with stealing or otherwise interfering with the U.S. mail, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, Sam Montalvo, assistant special agent in […]

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 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.  […]

New York Postal Worker Gets Two Months For OWCP Fraud

Press Release from the United States Attorney Northern District of New York September 10, 2010 Richard S. Hartunian, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, announced today that JAMES IZYK, 49, of Oswego, New York was sentenced in federal court today in Syracuse, N.Y. by U.S. District Court Judge Norman A. Mordue, […]

Missouri Postmaster Indicted In Sex Slave Case

Press Release from the United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that four southern Missouri men and a St. Louis, Mo., man have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a commercial […]

Kidnapper of Memphis Mail Carrier Sentenced To 25 Years In Prison

Memphis, TN – On Monday, August 23, 2010, United States District Court Judge Bernice B. Donald sentenced Michael Julian Smith, also known as Michael Walls, age 24, of Memphis, Tennessee, to 25 years incarceration in federal prison with no parole, announced Edward L. Stanton, III, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee. Smith […]