Posted on 11/22/2023 3:06:47 AM PST by Enterprise
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A U.S. Postal Service employee and two co-conspirators have been arrested on federal charges for a scheme involving stolen checks worth over $24 million, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. The federal indictment was unsealed following the defendants’ initial court appearances.
Nakedra Shannon, 29, Donnell Gardner, 27, and Desiray Carter, 24, all of Charlotte, are charged with one count of conspiracy to commit financial institution fraud and five counts of theft of government property. Carter and Gardner are also charged with seven counts of possession of stolen mail matter, and Shannon is charged with eight counts of theft of mail by a postal employee.
According to allegations in the indictment, from March 2021 to July 2023, Shannon was employed by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) as a mail processing clerk at a USPS processing and distribution center in Charlotte. From April to July 2023, Shannon conspired with Gardner and Carter to steal incoming and outgoing checks from the U.S. mail, which Gardner and Carter then sold to other individuals including using the Telegram channel OG Glass House.
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Nakedra Shannon, 29, Donnell Gardner, 27, and Desiray Carter, 24, all of Charlotte, are charged with one count of conspiracy to commit financial institution fraud and five counts of theft of government property. Carter and Gardner are also charged with seven counts of possession of stolen mail matter, and Shannon is charged with eight counts of theft of mail by a postal employee.
According to allegations in the indictment, from March 2021 to July 2023, Shannon was employed by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) as a mail processing clerk at a USPS processing and distribution center in Charlotte. From April to July 2023, Shannon conspired with Gardner and Carter to steal incoming and outgoing checks from the U.S. mail, which Gardner and Carter then sold to other individuals including using the Telegram channel OG Glass House. Over the course of the conspiracy, the co-conspirators allegedly stole checks totaling more than $24 million, including more than $12 million in stolen checks which were posted for sale on the Telegram channel OG Glass House, and more than $8 million in stolen U.S. Treasury checks. The indictment also alleges that the defendants obtained hundreds of thousands of dollars in criminal proceeds of the mail theft scheme.
Shannon, Gardner, and Carter were released on bond following their initial appearances in court.
The bank fraud conspiracy charge carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison. The charge of theft by a postal employee and possession of stolen mail has a statutory maximum penalty of five years in prison for the counts charged in the indictment. The charge of theft of government property carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison for each offense.
The charges in the indictment are allegations and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
In making today’s announcement, U.S. Attorney King thanked U.S. Postal Service’s Office of the Inspector General, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division, the U.S. Department of Treasury Bureau of the Fiscal Service, and the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department for their investigation which led to the charges.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jenny G. Sugar and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Frick with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Charlotte are prosecuting the case.
Updated November 17, 2023
Nakedra. Might just be one of those affirmative action quota hires. Nakedra, Donnell and Desiray. For all that crime though, they were able to post bond? Seriously?
Could this lovely trio have messed with the mail-in ballots too?
Did they mess with people's BALLOTS also?
It took more than two years to catch them? Meanwhile, I’m sure victims were registering complaints.
I’ll be disappointed but not surprised if they don’t get the full 30 years. The hurt this does to, f’rinstance, old folks living on pensions, is incalculable.
Nakedra, Donnell, & Desiray? ......says something. imho
Sounds like a Black Irish law firm.
Possibly, from March 2021 to July 2023.
It's possible. From March 2021 to July 2023.
Seems a bit long doesn't it?
See there’s hope. This is a well thought out crime. Sneaky with a cut out. Ya have to respect criminals like this. They saw an opportunity and took it. That’s the American way. On the other side of the coin, it would be interesting to know how they got caught. I’d bet a lavish life style displayed on Tik Tok.
For as long as this operation was conducted, I wonder why there weren’t multiple charges including RICO! My suspicion is that they were offered a deal. Take the deal or else.
How much did they sell the mail in ballots for?
The deal was, “Keep silent about the mail in ballot scheme.”
If they did participate in such a scheme, they would have been paid to steal ballots. That being said, I'm not sure they were part of ballot fraud. Their goal was money, not politics. Imagine if ballot fraud WAS part of this though!
Hey, what’s wrong? We gave Joe the Big Guy his 10%!
The tax fraud alone on the unclaimed income would put them away for another dozen years.
With the present feral DOJ, that would not be surprising!
I’ve heard other postal employees talk about the undeliverable ballots getting “picked up.”
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