A former employee of the US Postal Service (USPS) has recently been sentenced to prison Ministry of Justice.
Dena J. King, the American lawyer for the western district of North Carolina, announced the conviction in a press release on 7 February. Last week, residents of Charlotte Nakedra Shannon, 30, and Desiray Carter, 30, were sentenced to 60 months and 54 months in prison for The crimes, respectively.
Officials say that Shannon, who was employed by the USPS from March 2021 to July 2023, stolen incoming and outgoing checks while working as a mail processing clerk in a distribution center in Charlotte.
According to the press release, Shannon admitted that he had stolen the checks at the work from April to July 2023. Her fellow sameners were Carter and Donell Gardner, who was sentenced to 54 months in prison and three years of accompanying release in 2023.
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US Postal Service Trucks Park outside a post office, January 29, 2024, in Wheeling, Ill. (AP Photo/NAM Y. Huh, File)
“(Shannon) Samenweer with Gardner and Carter to steal incoming and outgoing checks of the American mail, which Gardner and Carter then sold to other people, including the use of the Telegram channel OG Glass House,” the press release in detail.
The thieves stable checks of a total of more than $ 24 million, according to officials.
“(The total) includes more than $ 12 million in stolen checks that were posted for sale on the Telegram channel OG Glass House and more than $ 8 million in stolen American treasury checks,” the release added. “The defendants have obtained hundreds of thousands of dollars in criminal proceeds from the postal theft regulation.”
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A truck from the United States Postal Service (USPS) leaves a posting facility. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
The office of the American attorney noted that the defendants argue guilty of one counting of conspiracy to commit fraud and theft of government possession. They were instructed to repay $ 113,333.87, both jointly and separately.
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USPS trucks are at a US Postal Service (USPS) facility. (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty images)
“When making today’s announcement, American lawyer King thanked the office of the Inspector General of US Postal Service, the US Postal Inspection Service, IRS-Criminal Investigation, the US Department of Treasury Bureau of the Fiscal Service and the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department for their investigation for their investigation for their investigation, “concluded the press release.
