SUFFOLK COUNTY, Long Island (WABC) -- At a time when we're sending holiday tidings through the mail, a clerk at a Long Island post office is accused of being a grinch who stole greeting cards and gifts.

Suffolk County DA Raymond Tierney says Jovanni Jamison-Lewis, 35, was caught red-handed on surveillance video taking two envelopes out of the outgoing mail at the Oakdale post office.

Each envelope contained a greeting card and gifts for the intended recipients. One held a T.J. Maxx gift card and the other contained three New York State Lottery scratch-off tickets.

Once she removed the gift card and lottery tickets, Jamison-Lewis put the now-empty greeting cards back into their envelopes and returned them to the outgoing mail, prosecutors at the Suffolk County district attorney's office

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