{"id":144047,"date":"2026-03-20T20:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144047\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T20:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:32:07","slug":"postal-worker-accused-of-bank-fraud-and-mail-theft-in-federal-indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144047\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal worker accused of bank fraud and mail theft in federal indictment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF)  \u2014 A Lackawanna County man who worked for the U.S. Postal Service is facing federal charges after being accused of stealing mail and committing bank fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Federal prosecutors say 33-year-old Nicholas Pecko of Vandling was indicted by a grand jury. According to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Pecko is accused of taking two checks from the mail totaling more than $6,500.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators allege the checks were altered to list Pecko as the payee before being deposited as part of a fraud scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The case was investigated by the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General. Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarah Lloyd is handling the prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted, Pecko could face up to 35 years in federal prison, along with supervised release and fines. Officials note that any sentence would be determined by a judge under federal guidelines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A Lackawanna County man who worked for the U.S. Postal Service is facing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-144047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}