{"id":281583,"date":"2026-06-29T20:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/281583\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:58:11","slug":"brooklyn-post-office-worker-arrested-for-stealing-25k-in-rent-payments-from-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/281583\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn post office worker arrested for stealing $25K in rent payments from mail"},"content":{"rendered":"

A callous U.S. postal service worker and two accomplices stole tens of thousands of dollars in rent payments from the mail, putting tenants at risk of eviction and forcing some of them to pay twice, Brooklyn prosecutors said Monday.<\/a><\/p>\n

Bianca Graham, 30, of Astoria, abused her position at the Blythebourne Post Office<\/a> in Borough Park to make some extra cash at the expense of 13 victims between August 2024 and August 2025, prosecutors say.<\/p>\n

Her scheme netted her and accomplice Sean Campbell, 36, of Prospect Lefferts Gardens, more than $25,100, before a tipster led investigators to get a warrant for her phone, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

Both were indicted Monday on grand larceny, criminal possession of a forged instrument, petty larceny and conspiracy charges. A third suspect, whose name is redacted from the indictment, has not been caught.<\/p>\n

Some of the victims were at risk of eviction and had to pay the rent a second time to cover the missing payment, a law enforcement source said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I found my in,\u201d Graham texted her other accomplice on Aug. 24, 2024, according to the indictment. \u201cI only took 1 and it\u2019s a (money) order.\u201d<\/p>\n

Graham\u2019s job sorting and distributing mail at the post office put her in a position to steal envelopes addressed to property management companies that held money orders meant to pay the rent, officials said.<\/p>\n

She and Campbell allegedly removed the names on the money order and replaced them with either Campbell or someone else\u2019s name before cashing them. In some cases, Campbell simply added his name alongside the money order\u2019s intended recipient, prosecutors say.<\/p>\n

\u201cRent is often a household\u2019s largest monthly expense, and tenants who mail money orders to pay for their homes are entitled to believe those payments will arrive safely,\u201d Brooklyn D.A. Eric Gonzalez said. \u201cThese defendants exploited that trust.\u201d<\/p>\n

The conspirators had to figure out which money orders were cancelled and which would go through. At one point, on Oct. 16, 2014, Graham warned the other accomplice, \u201cStop talking to me about this over the phone,\u201d the indictment alleges.<\/p>\n

Campbell and the other accomplice would hop from post office to post office to cash the money orders.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m at my next spot that got good money and I know the people hopefully the next three go now and I could start going home,\u201d the unapprehended accomplice texted Graham on Feb. 18, 2025, the indictment reads.<\/p>\n

Graham got spooked a month later, warning her accomplice, on March 26, \u201cThe inspectors are here again,\u201d according to the indictment.<\/p>\n

And on June 22, 2025, when the accomplice asked, \u201cAre you going to keep the business going or you want to play like you can\u2019t get no tickets,\u201d Graham replied, \u201cThe inspectors really are watching the boxes that\u2019s why I don\u2019t go over there anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

When police and U.S. Postal Service investigators confronted Graham in October, she denied the scheme at first, then admitted it and said she participated under duress, according to court filings.<\/p>\n

Both were arraigned in Brooklyn Supreme Court Monday, released without bail and ordered to return to court Aug. 26. Their lawyers did not return calls requesting comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A callous U.S. postal service worker and two accomplices stole tens of thousands of dollars in rent payments…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-281583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}