Tag: USPS
John Patrick Best, Conspiracy to Commit Mail and Wire Fraud, Alabama 2026
⏱ 2 min read John Patrick Best and Kevin Douglas Padgett, two men from Georgia and Alabama, have been charged in federal court for their alleged roles in a scheme to acquire and sell counterfeit United States postage stamps. The scheme, which involved buying and distributing large quantities of fake stamps, is said to have…
Troy Williams, Lottery Fraud, Pennsylvania 2023
⏱ 2 min read A Jamaican man, Troy Williams, 41, was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison for his role in an international lottery scam that targeted elderly victims in Pennsylvania. The scam, which ran from January 2019 to October 2023, involved convincing victims they had won a lottery and needed to pay taxes and…
Charles E. Poole III, Bank Fraud, Pennsylvania 2023
⏱ 2 min read Charles E. Poole III, a 48-year-old Philadelphia man, was sentenced to 69 months in prison for orchestrating a sprawling identity theft and bank fraud scheme that caused over $100,000 in losses to more than a dozen businesses and financial institutions in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The scheme, which lasted from…
Alexandria Bullock, Mail Embezzlement, Florida 2019
⏱ 2 min read Alexandria Bullock, a 46-year-old US Postal Service employee from Wimauma, has pleaded guilty to stealing mail while on her route in Tampa, Florida. Between April 2019 and her arrest, Bullock embezzled checks payable to individuals, charities, and legal entities, altering the payee line to her own name and depositing the funds…
Edgar Guzman, Drug Trafficking, New Jersey 2026
⏱ 2 min read A 34-year-old New Jersey man, Edgar Guzman, has been charged with selling fentanyl that killed a Corpus Christi resident on April 18, 2026. The victim, who was found unresponsive with signs of drug use, died from fentanyl toxicity. Guzman allegedly shipped the deadly drug through the mail to Corpus Christi using…
Jesse Jon Harbach, Methamphetamine Distribution and Possession, Iowa 2025
⏱ 2 min read Jesse Jon Harbach, a 45-year-old Delhi, Iowa man, was convicted of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine after a three-day trial in federal court in Cedar Rapids. Harbach was found with over 1,800 grams of methamphetamine on March 10, 2025, when law enforcement officers stopped the…
Mark Buschman, Firearms Smuggling, Wisconsin 2026
⏱ 2 min read A 61-year-old Wisconsin man, Mark Buschman, has pleaded guilty to running an illegal export operation that shipped US-acquired firearms to Saudi Arabia from February 2019 to December 2024. Buschman, of Viroqua, Wisconsin, sold the firearms and related parts without a license, advertising them on eBay and other online marketplaces, and generating…
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,…
