{"id":377667,"date":"2026-10-20T06:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T06:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/377667\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T06:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T06:53:09","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-us-postal-workers-indicted-for-stealing-checks-in-east-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/377667\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Us Postal Workers Indicted For Stealing Checks In East New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Two U.S. Postal workers are accused of stealing nearly $15,000 in checks from mail that they were supposed to deliver in Brooklyn, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Prosecutors say Nicole Bernard and Kenisha Hazzard stole checks from residents along their East New York routes and deposited them into their bank accounts. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">They say Bernard, who was employed as a city carrier at the East New York Station located at 2645 Atlantic Ave., stole multiple checks between March 2023 and Jan. 4, 2024.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Hazzard was also employed at the same station as a City Carrier Assistant and stole seven checks between Oct. 6 and Oct. 31, 2023.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The alleged thefts affected 10 victims.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Both women have been arraigned on separate indictments.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Bernard, who was arraigned on Oct. 6, is charged with criminal possession of a forged instrument, several counts of grand larceny and petit larceny. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Hazzard was arraigned Monday and was charged with criminal possession of a forged instrument, petit larceny and attempted petit larceny.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Both were released without bail and are expected to appear in court separately in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two U.S. Postal workers are accused of stealing nearly $15,000 in checks from mail that they were supposed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-377667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377667","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=377667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}