FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE	CONTACT: Lauren Horwood
August 18, 2011	PHONE: (916) 554-2706
www.usdoj.gov/usao/cae	usacae.edcapress@usdoj.gov
Docket #: 1:11-cr-00152-LJO

FRESNO, Calif. — United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that Lee Toua Xiong, 23, of Fresno, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill to one year and one day in federal prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to obstruct correspondence, possess counterfeit postal keys, possess postal mail locks, and possess stolen mail. Xiong was ordered to pay $1,485 in restitution to the victims of his crime.

According to court documents, between December 2010 and February 2011 Xiong participated with others in stealing mail from community mail boxes in the Fresno area, using homemade counterfeit postal keys. He also unlawfully possessed genuine postal mail locks and mail stolen from community mail boxes.

This case was the product of an investigation by the United States Postal Inspection Service. Assistant United States Attorney Henry Z. Carbajal III prosecuted the case.

Charges against two co-defendants are pending. The charges are only allegations and the defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

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