Manhattan
USPS Mailman
Stole Checks
and Was Freed
and Pled Now
Gets Year and
a Day
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 28 –
Christian
Cebollero was
arrested
stealing
checks from
people's mail
in the USPS
Church Street
Station in
lower
Manhattan.
On
August 8, 2023
he was
presented
before U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York
Magistrate
Judge Gabriel
W. Gorenstein.
Inner City
Press was
there, the
only media in
the SDNY Mag
court.
The
US Attorney's
Office agreed
to release on
$25,000
unsecured
bond, with one
co-signer and
no contact
with witnesses
or victim, how
ever
identified.
There
are more and
more of these
mail- and
check-theft
cases. But in
this case,
Cebollero is a
mail handler -
one whose
duties do not
- or did not -
include
sorting
individual
pieces of
mail.
He was
observed
"sorting
through mail,
removing
certain
mailings, some
of which were
letter sized
window
envelopes of
the type
commonly used
to transmit
business
checks," and
putting them
in his
backpack.
On
January 9
Cebollero
waived
indictment and
pled guilty to
an
Information,
before the
assigned
District Judge
George B.
Daniels.
On
May 23 the US
Attorney's
Office wrote
in to request
at least 48
months,
sentencing set
for May 28.
On
May 28,
Cebollero was
sentenced to a
year and a
day, allowing
for "good
time" credit.
Now
it is US v.
Cebollero,
24-cr-14
(Daniels)
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