Two Augusta men were sent to federal prison for using a postal key to steal mail and cash fake checks. They each got 10 years.

What’s Happening:

Cameron Martinas Curry, 22, and Quavaun Enreco Rhodes, 22, were each sentenced to 120 months in prison, $2,000 fines, $400 in special assessments, and five years of supervised release. There is no parole in federal prison.

Prosecutors say they got a U.S. Postal Service collection key, stole mail from blue boxes around Augusta, altered business checks, put them in co-conspirators’ accounts, and pulled the cash before banks flagged the fraud. They tried to steal more than $550,000.

Between the Lines: This scheme hit hundreds of victims, prosecutors said. That means local residents and small businesses lost time and money fixing fraud, closing a

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