ST. LOUIS – A former United States Postal Service worker appeared in federal court on Wednesday and admitted stealing checks from hundreds of pieces of mail and to committing pandemic loan fraud as well.
Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri, Anthony Virdure II, 30, stole the checks while working at the St. Louis Processing and Distribution Center located at 1720 Market Street.
The Hazelwood Police Department contacted U.S. Postal Inspectors on Dec. 1, 2023, to examine 30 stolen checks that had been left behind in a recently returned rental vehicle. The stolen checks had been routed through the distribution center in Downtown West. Vindure’s fingerprints were found on one check from a letter that he’d stolen…