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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2009
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FORMER POSTAL EMPLOYEE PLEADS GUILTY TO NETFLIX AND BLOCKBUSTER THEFT
BOSTON, MA - A Castleton-On-Hudson, NY man pled guilty today in federal court of Theft of Mail by a Postal Employee.
United States Attorney Michael K. Loucks and Joseph Finn, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Postal Service Office - Office of Inspector General, Boston Field Office announced that MYLES WEATHERS, age 49, of Castleton-On-Hudson, NY, pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Michael A. Ponsor to Theft of Mail by a Postal Employee.
At the plea hearing, the prosecutor told the Court that had the case proceeded to trial the Government’s evidence would have proven that between January 2007 and February 22, 2008, WEATHERS stole approximately 3,012 DVDs intended to be delivered to Netflix and Blockbuster customers through the U.S. Postal Service. WEATHERS worked on a sorting machine at the Processing and Distribution Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he stole DVDs being sent through the mail.
Judge Ponsor scheduled sentencing for December 23, 2009. WEATHERS faces up to five years imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine.
The case was investigated by the United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General. It is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle L. Dineen Jerrett of Loucks’ Springfield Office.
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