Vincent Anthony Gailliard Jr., age 41 of Sumter, has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, evidence obtained during an investigation revealed that between April 2022 and May 2023 Gailliard, who was employed as a mail handler at the USPS Processing and Distribution Center in Columbia, would steal mail containing bank checks that had been mailed by individuals and businesses and take pictures of the checks with his personal cell phone.

Gailliard would then offer to sell images of the checks that included account and routing numbers online to third parties that could use the stolen information to create false and fraudulent checks.

The case was investigated by the United States Postal Inspection Servi

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