USPS Letter Carrier Sentenced After Stealing $10M in Checks From the Mail

On September 8, 2025, Rashad Deon Stolden — a 34-year-old USPS letter carrier assigned to the Bicentennial Post Office in the Fairfax district of Los Angeles — was sentenced to 66 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $1,627,291 in restitution after pleading guilty on April 14, 2025, to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California before Judge R. Gary Klausner. From 2020 through August 2024, Stolden systematically stole large-value Treasury checks and California EDD debit cards from the mail routes he was entrusted to deliver, working alongside co-conspirator Charlie Green, 37, and a network of buyers who used counterfeit identity documents to negotiate the stolen instruments at banks outside California. Stolden and his co-conspirators also purchased victims' stolen identifying information to activate stolen EDD cards belonging to unemployment and disability claimants — converting benefits meant for people with no income into cash. In June 2022, Stolden stole a single $7.3 million Treasury check, sold it to a co-conspirator who negotiated it at a bank in Tennessee and withdrew more than $1 million from the deposit. Across four years and hundreds of routes, Stolden stole more than $10 million. Prosecutors noted that his own voluminous communications, recovered during the multi-agency investigation by the USPS OIG, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Treasury IG, CBP, and Coast Guard Investigative Services, contained no expression of empathy for his victims — only deliberations over whether to spend proceeds on a $13,000 hotel stay or a $20,000 upgrade. - - Disclaimer: This video is a dramatization based on real events. Some visual content was created with artificial intelligence assistance. Some details have been fictionalized and all names have been changed to protect the privacy of those involved.