CINCINNATI (WXIX) – A 21-year-old man will pay the price and spend time in federal prison for orchestrating a multi-million-dollar mail check theft operation in Cincinnati.
According to U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of Ohio Dominick Gerace II, Treyvon Alexander, of Georgetown, Kentucky, was sentenced to six years in prison and will have to pay more than half a million dollars in restitution for operating the “largest known theft of checks from the mail” in the city.
Alexander conspired with several others, including a postal employee, to commit bank fraud, stealing a total of 1,480 checks with a face value of $7.4 million, Gerace explained.
“Many of the checks were recovered during the execution of search warrants and delivered by the United States Postal Service to the intended recipient without any actual loss,” Gerace wrote in a press release…