Postal carrier seen stealing mail on camera in VA, feds say. She’s sentenced
A postal worker from Virginia is heading to prison in connection with mail theft, federal prosecutors said.
Kiesha L. Brown, 32, from Hampton, was sentenced to two years behind bars and ordered to pay more than $155,000 in restitution, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia said in an April 25 news release.
McClatchy News reached out to Brown’s attorney April 25 and was awaiting a response.
Brown worked as a city carrier assistant in Norfolk, prosecutors said.
Customers started complaining of check fraud and mail theft in mid-2023, according to prosecutors, and officials investigated, McClatchy News previously reported.
Eventually, investigators “homed in on Brown,” according to a court filing, which said “undercover cameras” were put in her work vehicle.
Brown was seen using drugs “and rummaging through and stealing mail,” the court filing said.
She told officials she stole mail and gave it “to an accomplice in exchange for cash to support her daughter and her drug habit,” according to the filing.
In all, officials identified 37 victims, according to prosecutors, who said Brown’s theft caused more than $155,000 in loss.
One customer with a business on Brown’s route reported more than a dozen checks taken from the mail, prosecutors said.
One $146 check “was altered and deposited in a bank account in the amount of $4,890.02,” never making it to its intended recipient, according to prosecutors.
Hampton is about a 27-mile drive north from Norfolk.
This story was originally published April 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM