Keansburg Postal Worker Stole Checks Out Of The Mail, Feds Charge

KEANSBURG, NJ — Federal prosecutors say a Keansburg postal worker stole checks out of the mail at the Keansburg post office, and cashed more than $150,000 in stolen checks.

The Keansburg postal worker has not been named. But police say he worked with a Newark man, Malachi Jefferson, 25.

Jefferson pleaded guilty on Monday of this week in federal court in Newark to one count of bank fraud. Here is the federal complaint against Jefferson: Jefferson.Information.pdf, which again does not name the mystery Keansburg postal worker. He is only called a "co-conspirator."

Police say that from April 2022 through November 2022, the Keansburg postal worker stole checks from the Keansburg, New Jersey post office. The postal worker and Jefferson then worked to deposit the stolen checks to fraudulently obtain more than $150,000.

Jefferson is facing up to 30 years in prison and will be sentenced in September.

U.S. Attorneys credited the Keansburg post office, Keansburg Police and Police Chief Andrew Gogan, Hazlet Police and Police Chief Robert Mulligan and the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, under the direction of Prosecutor Raymond Santiago.