A United States Postal Service worker, identified as Jayven Christian Jolly, aged 31, has faced arrest under suspicion of pilfering rent money orders intended for several apartment complexes in the South Miami region. Jolly, reportedly based out of the post office in South Miami, was detained on multiple felony charges, a matter that was confirmed by South Miami police in an arrest report provided to Local 10 News.
The scope of the allegations includes grand theft, organized scheme to defraud, communications fraud, forgery, and uttering forged instruments. Authorities assert that Jolly misappropriated the money orders from apartment dropboxes, subsequently cashing them. To delineate the issue, one of the victims reported missing four money orders, cumulatively valued at $1,800 for December’s rent at Villa Fontana, only later to uncover that Jolly had apparently cashed the payments fraudulently. In connection to this affair, Jolly was pinpointed on video at various banking facilities, including Navy Federal Credit Union, Stride Bank, and Amscot, a detail disclosed by a surveillance operation noted by Local 10 News.
Following a link in the chain of events, another victim claimed two money orders, totaling $1,765 designated for December’s rent at Sunset Manor Apartments, were similarly stolen and cashed. An investigation involving numerous victims corroborated that Jolly had cashed money orders amounting to thousands of dollars. NBC Miami furnished details of the supporting bank records which implicated Jolly in the crime…