Former Charlotte Postal Service worker who stole checks sentenced to five years

A former post office clerk in Charlotte who stole checks in a fraud scheme was sentenced Thursday to five years in federal prison.

Nakedra Shannon, 30, coordinated with two others to steal $24 million checks sent through the mail, landing the defendants hundreds of thousands of dollars after they posted the checks for sale online, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in North Carolina’s Western District.

A co-conspirator, Desiray Carter, 30, of Charlotte, was sentenced Thursday to four and a half years in prison. And another conspirator, Donell Gardner of Charlotte, was sentenced in July to four and a half years.

After the stolen checks were posted in online channels, people could buy them to cash them or try to replicate them, prosecutors previously said.

The three defendants were ordered to pay $113,333.87 in restitution, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.