{"id":50668,"date":"2025-11-18T01:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T01:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/50668\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T01:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T01:44:09","slug":"st-petersburg-man-gets-over-5-years-for-multi-million-dollar-mail-theft-and-bank-fraud-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/50668\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg Man Gets Over 5 Years For Multi-Million Dollar Mail Theft And Bank Fraud Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/USPS-Mail-Carrier-Steals-Gift-cards.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"455\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/USPS-Mail-Carrier-Steals-Gift-cards.jpeg\" alt=\"USPS Mail\" class=\"wp-image-85714\" title=\"St. Petersburg Man Gets Over 5 Years For Multi-Million Dollar Mail Theft And Bank Fraud Scheme 1\"  \/><\/a>USPS Mail<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2013 A St. Petersburg man, Ah\u2019Jhzae Diamondric Artag Berry, 30, was sentenced today to five years and five months in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges of bank fraud and theft of mail stemming from an extensive scheme that victimized hundreds of individuals and intended a total loss of over $380,000.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell imposed the sentence on Berry, who had pleaded guilty on June 4, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, the criminal operation took place between January and June 2024. Berry, along with accomplices, repeatedly broke into U.S. Postal Service receptacles, usually under the cover of night, using a stolen Postal Service key.<\/p>\n<p>Once the mail was stolen, Berry and his co-conspirators opened the packages and letters to extract valuable contents, including debit cards, credit cards, gift cards, and checks. Authorities also noted that on at least one occasion, Berry stole election ballots.<\/p>\n<p>The stolen checks were subsequently altered, with Berry and his accomplices changing the payee before fraudulently depositing them at federally insured banks. <\/p>\n<p>The court found that the ring\u2019s activities impacted hundreds of victims, with the total intended loss exceeding $380,000.<\/p>\n<p>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampafp.com\/florida-social-media-predator-gets-life-sentence-in-disturbing-case-involving-300-minors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Social Media Predator Gets Life Sentence In Disturbing Case Involving 300 Minors<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please make a small\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=KWYEB8X3JQ2MY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">donation to the Tampa Free Press to help sustain independent journalism<\/a>. 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PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2013 A St. Petersburg man, Ah\u2019Jhzae Diamondric Artag Berry, 30, was sentenced today&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-50668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50668","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=50668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}