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Mail handler who stole cash and gift cards sentenced to probation

DOJ Press release:

Nora R. Dannehy, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TROY L. NEAL, 59, of Meakin Drive, Windsor, was sentenced today by United States Magistrate Judge Donna F. Martinez in Hartford to six months of probation for stealing cash and gift cards from the U.S. Mail. Judge Martinez also ordered NEAL to pay a fine in the amount of $250. On June 9, 2008, NEAL pleaded guilty to one count of obstruction of the mail.

According to documents filed with the Court and statements made in court, between January 2006 and August 2007, NEAL, while employed as a mail handler at the Hartford Post Office, opened mail and withdrew the contents including cash and gift cards totaling approximately $400.

NEAL, had been employed by the United States Postal Service for approximately 15 years prior to the offense. He has since resigned from the Post Office.

This case was investigated by the United States Postal Inspection Service and was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Paul H. McConnell.

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3 Responses to “Mail handler who stole cash and gift cards sentenced to probation”

  • 1
    CYNT
    September 1st, 2008 23:12

    I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW COME A MDO CAN DO THE SAME THING AND SHE GETS DEMOTED SO IS THERE A DIFFERENCES SO SOME ONE IN MANGEMENT CAN STILL AND GET CAUGHT ON CAMERA AND NOTHING HAPPENS BUT A SLAP ON THE WRIST

  • 2
    buttercup
    September 6th, 2008 08:25

    I can’t believe that with all the postal employees stealing that they get a slap on the wrist or probation. They should be put in jail for six months not on probation. They certainly know what they are doing. What a message the justice systems give the customers who rely on delivery without this kind of thing happening.

  • 3
    jonah
    September 18th, 2008 14:58

    Managers are lying on a massive scale !! Can you say falsification of official documents ?? They get promoted instead of demoted. Employees get terminated , management gets promoted !!! Check out the facts and you’ll find this to be true !!! A manager recently chocked a mailhandler and is still on the job !!! Choking a mailhandler …. even a caveman can do it !!!