Tag: USPS
Spencer Walker, Methamphetamine Trafficking, Arkansas 2025
⏱ 2 min read In a major blow to methamphetamine trafficking in Arkansas, Spencer Walker, a 37-year-old Pine Bluff man, has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison. Walker was found guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and possession of a firearm…
Amanda Tucker, Theft of Mail by a Postal Employee, Kansas 2025
⏱ 2 min read Amanda Tucker, a 48-year-old former mail carrier from Scott City, Kansas, has admitted to stealing letters and parcels meant for delivery to residents along her route. The thefts occurred while Tucker was working at the Scott City Post Office, with law enforcement finding evidence of the stolen mail during a search…
McKenzie Phillip Storm Scott, Bank Fraud Conspiracy, Florida 2025
⏱ 2 min read McKenzie Phillip Storm Scott, a 30-year-old Jacksonville man, has been sentenced to 5 years in prison for conspiring to defraud financial institutions and failing to appear in court. Scott and his accomplices stole checks from the US mail, altered the payees and payment amounts, and deposited them into bank accounts to…
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…
