A U.S. Postal Service supervisor from Compton could get two decades in prison after she admitted on Friday to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of checks and other valuable items out of the mail.
Joivian Tjuana Hayes, 36, pleaded guilty to one count of theft of mail by a Postal Service employee and one count of unlawful use of means of identification, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release.
Hayes, who was a supervisor at the Costa Mesa Post Office, stole the checks and valuables last year. She deprived victims of at least 20 checks adding up to about $284,000, as well as $40,000 worth of items like gold and collector currency, such as a Confederate $10 bill…