Posted on 10/09/2025 11:08:41 AM PDT by Red Badger
This mailman thought he'd be eating good for quite some time, but then he got pulled over.
The stolen checks were in the mailman's lunchbox.
A Knox County patrol deputy conducted a traffic stop along Clinton Highway on the afternoon of October 5 and detected an odor of marijuana, according to a sheriff's office spokesperson. The front seat passenger, identified as Dontray Ligon, stated that the car belonged to him and allowed deputies to search it.
Two large lunchboxes containing check-related mail that investigators believe to be stolen were found during the search. The sheriff's office spokesperson said Wednesday that the stolen checks amounted to $972,051.63 and multiple victims have been linked to the recovered mail.
Dontray Ligon was employed as a United States postal worker. He's facing down charges for theft and mail theft of $250,000 or more.
Yes, a pothead mailman allegedly snuck checks out of the mail and into his lunchbox in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Here's more from another Knoxville station:
A spokesperson with the USPS told WVLT News the agency is investigating the matter and that Ligon is 'currently not working for the USPS.' The representative went on to say, 'The USPS OIG considers the allegations of theft of U.S. Mail by any Postal Service employee to be a very serious issue. When such allegations are made, USPS OIG special agents vigorously investigate those allegations.'
I know one mail man who would love to get a crack at this case ...
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“That’s not mine!”
These aren’t my pants! Oh, wait a minute.... that’s not my lunch, man!
That alone tells the whole story. Start to finish.
They are the easiest to spot.
average check in the mail is typically gonna be no more than a few hundred dollars, so we’re talking about at least a 5wo thousand stolen checks ...
checks are uncommon in the mail these days, so dude had to have stolen these over a period of many weeks, even many months ... hundreds of complaints over those many weeks must have come in and been ignored by this post office ...
the top three levels of management in this post office or regional sorting facility should be terminated ... period ...
They just finally caught the person stealing checks here in Torrance Ca PO. a few months ago. Checks have been stolen for years.
Why is it always....?
But yeah use the mail for your ballot Republicans! /s
I am surprised that people still get paper checks. Since checks are digitized by banks after their deposit, there is zero float from paper checks plus the risk of theft by mailmen or others. I assume the recipients are very elderly, over 80 years of age.
That’s a big lunchbox.
Click. Yup.
But not cashed? I don’t get it.
Names, addresses, checking account numbers, bank addresses and signatures..............fungible items on the Dark Web..............
Remember these are the same people NOT delivering your mail in ballots.
BINGO ! These DEMOCRAT mailman KNOW WHO YOU VOTE FOR.
“mailman allegedly snuck checks”
“Snuck”. 🙄😵💫
My husband goes to the VA and there is a co-pay. I pay it and then they refund it after his secondary insurance kicks in. I have tried several times to find a way to break this cycle, telling them to keep it on the account but they can not do that.
The ways of the government are strange.
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