Investigative News Releases

BOSTON – A Fall River U.S. Postal Service employee has pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to obstructing the mail by diverting multiple mail packages in his custody. The employee pleaded guilty to five counts of obstruction of mail. He knowingly obstructed the passage of five packages. Specifically, He drove packages to locations not the delivery addresses. Scanned them to record them as delivered and gave them to someone else. Matthew Modafferi, Special Agent in Charge of the USPS OIG

ST. LOUIS – A U.S. Postal Service mail carrier in Moberly, Missouri has been federally indicted and accused of stealing from the mail. Dawn Dowling, 58, was indicted November 29 on one felony count of embezzlement of mail by a Postal Service employee. The indictment accuses Dowling of taking mail from about July 2023 to August 2023. Dowling appeared in U.S. District Court in St. Louis Tuesday and pleaded not guilty. The U.S. Postal Service – Office of Inspector General investigated the case.

CINCINNATI – A former United States Postal Service employee pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to selling a postal key. Demarco Tapplar admitted to selling a mail arrow key, which is a federal crime. Individuals sought to steal cash and checks from USPS collection boxes by illegally obtaining the postal keys to the boxes. Police recovered a stolen postal key. The next day, the perpetrators of the mail theft obtained a new postal key by purchasing one from Tapplar.

CAMDEN, N.J. – A Gloucester County, New Jersey, man who worked as a postal employee admitted today stealing more than $170,000 in cash that had been sent through the mail. Joseph Fenuto pleaded to an information charging him with one count of mail theft. Fenuto admitted he had stolen more than 50 parcels containing cash from retail stores. U.S. Attorney Sellinger credited special agents with the USPS OIG, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Matthew Modafferi.

NEW ORLEANS – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that TIMOTHY MCMILLAN, JR., age 43, of New Orleans, was indicted on November 30, 2023 for Theft of Mail by a Postal Service employee. MCMILLAN stole and removed money from a letter entrusted to him, while performing his assigned duties as an employee of the United States Postal Service. U.S. Attorney Evans praised the work of the United States Postal Inspection Service, Office of the Inspector General in investigating this matter.