A Princeton couple has been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in the theft of mail from collection boxes in Evansville.
45-year-old Michael Jerome Wright was sentenced to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to mail theft, unlawful possession of a mail key, access device fraud, aggravated identity theft, possession of ammunition by a felon, and possession of a machinegun.
36-year-old Cortney Lashea Young was sentenced to two years after pleading guilty to mail theft and possession of a firearm by a felon.
Both will serve three years of supervised release following their prison sentence.
Investigators conducted a court-authorized search of Wright and Young’s apartment in Princeton and located hundreds of checks and their corresponding envelopes, many of which had been previously reported as stolen.
The stolen checks had a total face value of over 1.8 million dollars.
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