(This story was updated to add a comment from the U.S. Postal Service.)
A former U.S. Postal Service employee signed a plea agreement earlier in May for fraudulently endorsing checks he stole from the mail at a Baltimore mail processing center that serves Washington County and other communities.
Almost 200 pieces of mail containing more than $700,000 were recovered when police searched Derrick Stewart on Dec. 2, 2023, as he was exiting a postal facility, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland…