{"id":353633,"date":"2026-07-27T13:31:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/353633\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T13:31:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:31:56","slug":"tampa-usps-employee-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-embezzling-checks-while-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/353633\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa USPS employee pleads guilty to stealing, embezzling checks while working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video above: See the week&#8217;s top headlines in Tampa Bay<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 A Tampa USPS employee has pleaded guilty to stealing mail while on the clock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the Department of Justice for the Middle District of Florida, Alexandria Bullock, 46, began working for the U.S. Postal Service in April 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities said Bullock knowingly and unlawfully embezzled items of mail while on her mail route, including checks payable to individuals, charities, and legal entities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bullock would then change the payee line of the stolen checks to her own name and deposit them into her bank account, the DOJ said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities announced Monday that Bullock pleaded guilty to theft by a postal employee. She faces a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video above: See the week&#8217;s top headlines in Tampa Bay TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 A Tampa USPS employee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[144526,134966,135,137,136,40980],"class_list":["post-353633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-alexandria-bullock","tag-stolen-checks","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-u-s-postal-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}