Two U.S. Postal Service employees are accused of stealing over $1 million worth of business checks from the mail in a scheme that lasted over a year, according to federal prosecutors.
The federal indictment outlines how three men are facing charges, two of which were USPS employees.
It states Darnelle Concepcion was a city carrier at the Deep Creek Post Office located in Chesapeake and Quasheda Jones was a carrier in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Prosecutors allege for a year, starting in November of 2022, they obtained hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stolen checks with a “face value of well in excess of $1 million dollars.”
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Prosecutors allege they stole dozens of business checks.
It states they then allegedly gave the stolen checks to Devon Drumgoole.
Records outline how “account mules” would be used, which they define as those whose names are used on accounts to deposit the stolen checks.