In court documents, federal prosecutors allege three Houston-area mail carriers were recruited to find and steal checks they handled in their United States Postal Service duties and sell them for profit. In total, five were indicted.
Three Houston-area United States Postal Service workers are among five people accused of helping coordinate the theft of nearly $24 million worth of checks from mailboxes.
In court documents, federal prosecutors allege Tryston Tremaine Vaughn recruited three mail carriers — Catherine Clauzelle Kilpatrick, Drakkor Jamar Alexander, and Malcom Tiree Joubert — to steal checks they found in the mail and then sell those checks to Vaughn. Vaughn then allegedly posted the stolen checks for sale on the messaging app Telegram in a channel titled “slipsandchips.” Telegram channels can be used to broadcast messages to large audiences.
The indictment indicates the operation ran from 2022 to 2024…