Tag: USPS
Patrick Louis Gastelo, Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine, Montana 2026
⏱ 2 min read Patrick Louis Gastelo, a 47-year-old Arizona man, conspired to distribute methamphetamine in Billings, Montana, by arranging for a 2-pound shipment to be sent to his girlfriend’s home. The package, flagged by a USPS postal inspector on November 7, 2022, was intercepted and led to Gastelo’s eventual arrest. Gastelo had planned to…
Khalea Turner, Mail Hoarding, Massachusetts 2026
⏱ 2 min read Khalea Turner, a 29-year-old former United States Post Office employee, pleaded guilty to failing to deliver approximately 14,700 pieces of mail to customers in Brighton, Dorchester, and Mattapan, Boston. Between November 2022 and January 2026, Turner worked as a full-time letter carrier, covering routes in these neighborhoods, as well as the…
Waleed Shamim, Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances, New Jersey 2026
⏱ 2 min read Two Pakistani men, Waleed Shamim and Sameer Shamim, and one Indian man, Shareef Beig, were indicted for allegedly using dark web marketplaces to traffic narcotics and counterfeit pills into the United States, specifically targeting customers in New Jersey between November 2021 and June 2022. The indictment, returned on May 12, 2026,…
Nazaly Mason Smith, Check Fraud, New York 2026
⏱ 2 min read Nazaly Mason Smith, a 33-year-old New York man, has pleaded guilty to leading a multi-state check fraud scheme that caused over $1.5 million in losses. The scheme, which involved providing subordinates with fake identification documents and stolen personal identifiable information, was carried out across multiple states. Smith, who was originally from…
Marshun Lewis, Armed Robbery, Tennessee 2023
⏱ 3 min read A brazen scheme to rob United States Postal Service carriers and cash in on the loot with bank fraud landed a Memphis man and his mother behind bars. Marshun Lewis, 25, was sentenced to 42 years in prison for a string of armed robberies in Western Tennessee. Between August 2023 and…
Zakary Faccio, Fentanyl Trafficking, Wyoming 2024
⏱ 2 min read Zakary Faccio, a 35-year-old from Chandler, Arizona, was sentenced to 67 months in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin and fentanyl in Wyoming. The sentence was handed down by U.S. District Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on May 5. Faccio’s crime involved using the U.S. Postal Service to send a package containing…
Linda Natelle Brown, Embezzlement, Virginia 2019
⏱ 2 min read Linda Natelle Brown, a 43-year-old Texas woman, was the administrator of the Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign (CVC), a charity program for Virginia state employees. From 2017 to 2023, Brown was supposed to steward donations from over 120,000 state government employees, but instead, she embezzled more than $1.5 million. The theft occurred…
Michael Jermaine Thompson, Bank Fraud and Identity Theft, Georgia 2024
⏱ 2 min read In a brazen crime, two men were caught stealing mail from a ‘blue box’ outside a post office in Augusta, Georgia, in December 2024. Michael Jermaine Thompson, 24, of North Augusta, South Carolina, and Robert Dean Plyler, 23, of Augusta, were seen by police opening the mail box and placing the…
Antrell Jermaine Hillard, Postal Key Theft, Florida 2025
⏱ 2 min read Antrell Jermaine Hillard, a 33-year-old from Live Oak, Florida, has pleaded guilty to a string of brazen postal crimes that took place in Gainesville and Ocala between March 21, 2025, and March 29, 2025. Hillard and his co-conspirators targeted United States Postal Service carriers, stealing their keys in a bid to…
Tiara McGill-Rushing, Embezzlement, Missouri 2024
⏱ 2 min read Tiara McGill-Rushing, a 34-year-old former US Postal Service employee from Kansas City, Missouri, pleaded guilty to embezzling at least 70 individual letters containing gift cards on March 22, 2024. McGill-Rushing, who worked for the USPS, used her position to steal the mail with the intent to convert the gift cards to…
