A U.S. Postal Service employee and a co-conspirator have been sentenced to prison for their involvement in a scheme that involved stealing checks valued at over $24 million. This announcement was made by Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
Nakedra Shannon, aged 30, and Desiray Carter, also 30, both residents of Charlotte, received sentences of 60 months and 54 months in prison, respectively. They will also face two years of supervised release following their imprisonment. On July 18, 2024, another conspirator, Donell Gardner, aged 28 from Charlotte, was sentenced to 54 months in prison with three years of supervised release. All defendants had pleaded guilty to charges including conspiracy to commit financial institution fraud and theft of government property. They are collectively required to pay $113,333.87 in restitution.
Court documents reveal that from March 2021 to July 2023, Shannon worked as a mail processing clerk at a USPS distribution center in Charlotte. Between April and July 2023, she collaborated with Gardner and Carter to steal checks from incoming and outgoing U.S. mail. These stolen checks were then sold through various means, including the Telegram channel OG Glass House. The group managed to steal checks totaling more than $24 million—over $12 million of which were posted for sale on OG Glass House—and more than $8 million comprised stolen U.S. Treasury checks.
U.S. Attorney King expressed gratitude towards several agencies for their roles in investigating the case: 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 prosecution was led by Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Frick from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Charlotte.