LAS VEGAS – A jury convicted a former U.S. Postal Service clerk on Wednesday for stealing a customer’s mail and cashing the postal money orders worth over $2,300 that were inside.

According to court documents and evidence presented during trial, between June 28, 2016 and July 6, 2016, James Earl Magee, 32, stole an envelope containing three money orders worth about $2,340.27 and cashed the money orders for his personal use.

United States Attorney Jason M. Frierson for the District of Nevada and Acting Special Agent in Charge London Mulcahy for the U.S. Postal Service - Office of Inspector General, Western-Pacific Area Field Office made the announcement.

The U.S. Postal Service - Office of Inspector General investigated the case.

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