An ex-U.S. Postal Service letter carrier from Orange County was sentenced Monday to five and a half years in federal prison for stealing more than $10 million in Treasury and other checks from the mail over four years.
Rashad Deon Stolden, 34, of Huntington Beach, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner, who also ordered him to pay $1.62 million in restitution, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Stolden — who worked at the Bicentennial Post Office in the Fairfax district of Los Angeles — stole mail containing large value checks, as well as debit cards from the California Employment Development Department, which manages the state’s unemployment insurance program, according to his plea agreement filed in Los Angeles federal court…