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A former United States Postal Service (USPS) employee was convicted and sentenced after stealing $1.9 million in business checks.
Dontavis Romario Truesdale, 28, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was sentenced to two years and 3 months in prison for financial institution fraud, federal prosecutors said in a statement on May 20. Truesdale will also be subject to two years of supervision following his release.
Truesdale worked as a processing clerk at the Ballantyne Post Office in Charlotte from November 2022 to April 2023, according to the statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Western District of North Carolina and court documents reviewed by USA TODAY. During that time, he took hundreds of business checks from P.O. boxes in the facility, amounting to 200 checks worth $1.9 million in stolen funds.
Truesdale then sold the stolen checks to co-conspirators who used them to commit bank fraud by depositing or creating counterfeit checks from the stolen ones and withdrawing or moving funds before banks could identify the checks as fraudulent.
Truesdale released on bond, will serve sentence once prison is selected
Truesdale, along with his primary co-conspirator, was originally charged with five counts of theft of mail by a postal employee and one count of fraud. He ultimately pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to commit financial institution fraud, which carries a potential sentence of up to 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine.
Truesdale was released on bond after his May 20 hearing and will report to the Federal Bureau of Prisons after a federal facility is selected for his sentence.
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