Posted on 08/29/2016 7:22:45 AM PDT by BenLurkin
One of the defendants, a former local area president of the Mail Handlers Union, is accused of stealing 166 cellphones from the mail and trying to exchange an unknown number of the items online. Jarol Garcia, 33, has been charged with conspiracy and possession of stolen mail, the release stated.
The crimes are alleged to have occurred when Garcia worked as a mail handler at the Moreno Valley Delivery Distribution Center.
One female postal carrier from the Sawtelle District of Los Angeles, 48-year-old Sherry Naomi Watanabe, allegedly was found to have 48,000 pieces of mail at her home that were supposed to be delivered to customers along her Placentia route, the release said, citing a plea agreement.
In another case, a mail carrier from the Mid-City District was accused of being part of a conspiracy to steal identities to order pre-paid PayPal debit cards. Norman A. Muschamp, 48, allegedly obtained the debit cards from the mail, then delivered them for cash to co-conspirators, according to the Justice Department.
The scheme is believed to have resulted in the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Muschamp was charged with conspiracy to commit access device fraud and steal mail.
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I guess if they arrested them one at a time it wouldn’t make news and they couldn’t ask for an increase in their budget.
It took a month to show up and half the stuff was missing. Pilfering from the mail is SOP south of the border. They bring these values with them when they come north.
Even if you report to USPS about stolen mail, they do nothing.
Dead Kennedys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jHQqcky_Aw
“Newman.....”
Can’t imagine why
Honestly, I don’t think illegals work at the post office. I’ve never seen any working there in CA.
48 pieces of Ma? No!
Of those who were caught, it makes you wonder how many weren’t.
Other than a letter, everything else I send is ups or FedEx.
There have been hundreds of stories of individual mail carriers being arrested. Just Google Newman.
Who said anything about them being illegal? I was just pointing out their values. And, yeah, it isn’t just the Hispanics in California. Throw in the union entitlement mentality and just about everyone who works for the USPS there is a possible suspect.
Send gift cards online. No charge with Amazon. The recipient will never not get it.
Probably stockpiling it in someone’s storage unit. Collecting checks, just not delivering mail.
Not always true. I had one disappear last month. Amazon replaced it immediately, but the tracking showed it in transit, but never delivered.
“Even if you report to USPS about stolen mail, they do nothing.”
Several years ago we were contacted by the San Leandro (CA) PD. It seems that they had apprehended a young BLACK girl trying to cash a machine-generated check for $1600 on our business bank account. It was an exact replica of the checks we use to pay bills in our business. The bank clerk had called the cops when he/she noted that the check number was way out of sequence with the current checks we were issuing. I might add that the woman had already successfully passed another check in a bank branch over in San Mateo for $2400. When she was interrogated, she told the cops that she was working for a “ring” that got it’s check info from a person at the USPS Richmond Bulk Mail Processing Center. Evidently, their contact opened a utility bill we had mailed, took a pic of the check, then resealed and sent the bill on it’s way. So now, we do virtually no banking by mail. It’s all electronic funds transfer. Oh, and our bank had to eat the $2400. The USPS should be shuttered and the mail service turned over to private enterprise
Muschamp and Watanabe are from South of the Border??
Shocked it took 6 posts.
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