BOSTON — This is an official press release from the U.S. Department of Justice (USAO - Massachusetts), published as received.
BOSTON – Amber Lopresti, 28, of Taunton, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge George A. O’Toole, Jr., to two years of probation and restitution of $2,410.
In June 2015, Lopresti, a former employee of the United States Postal Service in Hanover, pleaded guilty to embezzling the U.S. mail and stealing the contents of the mail over a five month period while she was an employee. Lopresti has since been terminated.
On Oct. 8, 2014, while working as a Post Office employee, Lopresti was observed on a security camera rifling through the mail, removing unopened letters and greeting cards, and concealing them beneath her waistband. When her shift was over, she left the Post Office and removed the letters from her waistband once she was in her vehicle. She was stopped by police a short time later and the unopened letters and money were observed on her lap. Lopresti admitted to law enforcement officers that she took money from one of the stolen letters. She further admitted that in June 2014 she began stealing letters and contents from the letters from the Hanover Post Office, and had taken approximately $2,000 in cash, cards, and scratch tickets.
United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz; Eileen Neff, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Postal Service, Office of Inspector General, Northeast Area Field Office; and Hanover Police Chief Walter Sweeney, made the announcement today. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Suzanne Sullivan Jacobus of Ortiz’s Major Crimes Unit.
