Former driver sentenced for destroying mail
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A former truck driver who destroyed letters and packages that the U. S. Postal Service hired his company to deliver was sentenced Thursday to four months in prison and four months of home confinement.
Gregory Gibson, 28, of Holland, pleaded guilty in February to misdemeanor charges that he delayed and destroyed pieces of U. S. mail.
Gibson admitted that on a number of occasions between 2006 and 2008, he opened mail, stole some of the contents and at times dumped mail by the side of the road, rather than deliver it.
Federal postal inspectors began to investigate Gibson after a man walking his dog found mail that had been dumped in Holland, Assistant U. S. Attorney Cindy J. Majewski said.
Gibson was not a Postal Service employee but was a truck driver for a company that was contracted to transport mail from Holland to other locations in the region, Majewski said.
U. S. Magistrate Judge H. Kenneth Schroeder Jr. also fined Gibson $1,000.
Published: May 22, 2009, 12:30 am