A 21-year-old man will pay the price and serve time in federal prison for orchestrating a multimillion-dollar mail check-stealing ring in Cincinnati.
Treyvon Alexander of Georgetown, Kentucky, was sentenced to six years in prison and ordered to pay more than half a million dollars in restitution for operating the “largest known theft of checks from the mail” in the city, according to U.S. Attorney Dominick Gerace II of the Southern District of Ohio.
Alexander plotted with others, including a postal employee, to commit bank fraud, stealing a total of 1,480 checks for $7.4 million, Gerace revealed.
“Many of the checks were recovered during the execution of search warrants and delivered by the United States Postal Service to the intended recipient without any actual loss,” Gerace wrote in a press release.
According to federal criminal records, Destiny Neblett, 23, of Cincinnati, worked as a postal employee and stole from a mail processing facility while at work. She would then hand over the stolen cheques to her boyfriend, Cincinnati native Lonnell Lucas, 23.
According to court filings, Lucas sold the checks to Alexander, who processed and converted the stolen monies.
Alexander pleaded guilty in February to conspiring to conduct bank fraud, while Neblett pleaded guilty in August.
Lucas’s plea hearing is planned for September 30.
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