HAMMOND — An Illinois postal carrier is pleading guilty to stealing more than $18,000 in checks from the mail to defraud an area business.
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Latoya Tolbert of Oak Forest asked U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge John E. Martin this week to abort her jury trial.
A federal grand jury indicted Tolbert and Shawn Edwards of Lansing in July on charges of wire fraud. The grand jury also indicted Tolbert on a charge of theft of mail by a postal employee.
The government says Edwards approached Tolbert, a postal carrier in 2020, with a scheme to defraud an unidentified business. Edwards paid her to take advantage of her job to divert four checks to Edwards between September 2020 through February 2021.