US Postal Service employee helped steal checks in mail, sold mailbox key to others

ST. LOUIS, Mo. ( KMOV /Gray News) - An employee with the United States Postal Service admitted Thursday to stealing checks from the mail and selling the key to co-conspirators to steal mail, according to authorities.

In a release , the Department of Justice said the employee, identified as 30-year-old Cambria M. Hopkins, pleaded guilty to one conspiracy charge and one unlawful use of a mail key charge.

Hopkins was a postal carrier in Clayton, Missouri. Authorities said she joined a scheme to steal mail for personal information and business checks.

Officials said Hopkins sold her “arrow key,” which allows access to Postal Service collection boxes, to Malik A. Jones on March 20, 2022.

Authorities said Hopkins then shared with Jones the boxes that the key would open, and Jones paid ot