Mailhandler pleads guilty to stealing merchandise from mail
The U.S. Department of Justice’s U.S. Attorney’s office for Connecticut issued the following press release:
Nora R. Dannehy, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTHONY HARLEY, 45, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today before United States Magistrate Judge Joan G. Margolis in New Haven to one count of obstruction of the mails.
According to documents filed with the Court and statements made in court, on July 19, 2004, while working as a full-time mail handler with the United States Postal Service at the Stamford Mail Processing Plant, HARLEY took two separate pieces of mail not addressed to him. One piece of mail contained black Teva sneakers and the second piece of mail contained a pair of Steiner binoculars. After taking the mail, HARLEY placed both items in his personal knapsack so that he could take them for his own use and benefit.
HARLEY is scheduled to be sentenced on July 2, 2008, at which time he faces a maximum term of imprisonment of six months and a fine of up to $5,000.
This matter was investigated by the United States Postal Inspection Service and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Douglas P. Morabito.
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