A U.S. Postal Service employee and a co-conspirator were sentenced to prison for their involvement in a scheme involving stolen checks worth over $24 million. The announcement was made by Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. A third individual involved had been sentenced earlier.
Nakedra Shannon and Desiray Carter, both 30 and from Charlotte, received prison sentences of 60 months and 54 months respectively, followed by two years of supervised release. Previously, on July 18, 2024, Donell Gardner, also from Charlotte and aged 28, was sentenced to 54 months in prison with three years of supervised release. All defendants had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit financial institution fraud and theft of government property charges. They were collectively ordered to pay $113,333.87 in restitution.
Court records indicate that between March 2021 and July 2023, Shannon worked as a mail processing clerk at a USPS distribution center in Charlotte. From April to July 2023, she conspired with Gardner and Carter to steal checks from U.S. mail services. These checks were then sold by Gardner and Carter through various channels including Telegram's OG Glass House channel. The stolen checks totaled over $24 million; this included more than $12 million posted for sale on Telegram and over $8 million in stolen U.S. Treasury checks.
The investigation was carried out by several agencies including the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of the Inspector General, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, IRS-Criminal Investigation, the U.S. Department of Treasury Bureau of the Fiscal Service, and the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department.
The case was prosecuted by Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Frick from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Charlotte.
