A U.S. Postal Service employee from Jersey City has pleaded guilty to stealing cell phones from the Elizabeth Post Office while working there and reselling them for a total of $12,000, U.S. Attorney Philip Sellinger announced.
By John Heinis/Hudson County View
Nyasia Hutchinson, 26, of Jersey City, pleaded guilty by videoconference before U.S. District Judge John Michael Vazquez to an information charging her with one count of theft of mail by a postal employee.
Hutchinson was employed by the U.S. Postal Service as a postal service clerk at the Elizabeth Post Office.
From May 1st, 2018, through December 31st, 2018, another EPO employee provided Hutchinson with 15 to 20 stolen cellphones that the employee had taken out of packages at the EPO that had been mailed to a Hillside business.
Hutchinson admitted that she taped up empty packages and placed them back in the mail stream after cellphones had been removed. Hutchinson later sold the stolen iPhones which had a total approximate value of $12,000, keeping the sales proceeds for herself.
The theft of mail by a postal employee charge carries a maximum potential penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Sentencing is scheduled for January 31st, 2023.
Sellinger credited special agents of the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General, Northeast Area Field Office, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Matthew Modafferi, with the investigation leading to today’s guilty plea.
IT’S SO SAD TO SEE OUR YOUTH TAKE THE BLESSINGS GOD HAS GIVEN THEM AND LITERALLY PISS IT AWAY!!!!🤬😡🤬😡
BUT I BLAME THE PARENTS (OR SHOULD I SAY, THE PEOPLE WHO HAD SEX N CREATED THEM) BECAUSE WHEN A CHILD IS LOVED, NURTURED N RAISED WITH MORALS N VALUES THEY DON’T MAKE DECISIONS THAT WILL RUIN THEIR LIVES N REPUTATIONS!!! IJS….