AKRON, Ohio  – Bruce C. Murdock, Jr., 54, of Massillon, Ohio, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John R. Adams to six months in prison and was ordered to pay $8,346.96 in restitution and a $20,000 fine after Murdock pleaded guilty to delay or destruction of mail and theft of mail by a postal service employee.

According to court documents, from February 2021 to April 2022, Murdock was employed in the United States Postal Service (USPS) as a West Area Post Office Operation Manager (POOM), which is a high-level position that manages multiple Post Office locations.  As a POOM, court records state that Murdock was able to remove parcels of mail from the mail stream prior to a scanning process that marked the mail as delivered to the Massillon Post Office.  This avoided the parcels from being labeled as “lost” at the Massillon Post Office. 

The investigation preceding the indictment was conducted by the USPS OIG and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Colleen Egan.