The feds say they caught a mail handler in Missouri pulling off a staggering amount of check theft over a two year period with damages of approximately $2.4 million dollars impacting hundreds of victims.
This is an issue that is personal for me as my dad was a mail carrier and eventually a window clerk in a Missouri post office for more than 30 years. The United States Postal Inspection Service said in a press release that Anthony Virdure II, 31, confessed to stealing hundreds of checks beginning in late 2023 and continuing into 2024 while working at the primary St. Louis post office in Hazelwood, Missouri.
Authorities became suspicious that something was wrong when Hazelwood, Missouri police found a rental car that had 30 stolen checks inside. They contacted special agents for the US Postal Inspection Service who traced the checks through the post office where Virdure was working. Fingerprint analysis connected him directly to the stolen checks that were found. In a different investigation, the FBI was investigating nearly 300 stolen checks they found that were eventually connected to Virdure also…