Mailman Gets Prison Time For Stealing $10M In Checks From Mail

LOS ANGELES, CA — A second ex-U.S. Postal Service letter carrier from Southern California was sentenced Monday to five and a half years in federal prison for stealing more than $10 million in Treasury and other checks from the mail over four years.

Charlie Banks Green Jr., 37, of the Wellington Heights area of East Los Angeles, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner, who ordered him to pay $1.62 million in restitution, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Green — who worked at the Bicentennial Post Office in the Fairfax district — pleaded guilty in April in downtown Los Angeles to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud.

Green admitted stealing mail containing large value checks, as well as debit cards from the California Employment Development Department, which manages the state's unemployment insurance program, while the scheme operated from 2020 through August 2024, according to his plea agreement filed in Los Angeles federal court.

Green worked alongside his friend, Rashad Deon Stolden, 34, of Huntington Beach, who also pleaded guilty to the conspiracy count and received the same penalty as Green when he was sentenced two weeks ago.

Both defendants sold the checks they stole to co-conspirators who used fake IDs to cash them, prosecutors said.

In June 2022, Stolden stole a $7.3 million Treasury check, which he then sold to an accomplice, who negotiated it at a bank in Tennessee, according to court documents.

The accomplice was able to withdraw more than $1 million from the deposit of the check, federal officials said.

Some of Stolden's co-conspirators have been prosecuted in separate court proceedings, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

City News Service