Three men were sentenced October 1 after admitting a scheme involving checks stolen from U.S. Postal Service collection boxes in and around St. Louis. The largest check cited by prosecutors was $312,677, deposited at a bank branch in Chesterfield in 2023.
The case involved forged documents and accounts opened in the names of businesses whose checks had been taken from the mail. The defendants were sentenced in federal court; the case does not establish that a particular consumer’s check is currently at risk or create a claim process for people who use street collection boxes…