Postal Clerk Pleads Guilty to Stealing Prescription Painkillers from Mail and Burglarizing Post Office
BIRMINGHAM — A former U.S. Postal Service clerk in Tuscaloosa pleaded guilty today to stealing prescription painkillers from the mail and to breaking into the Skyland Post Office, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, Postal Service Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Max Eamiguel, of the Southern Area Field Office, and Postal Inspection Service Team Leader Frank Dyer.
NICHOLAS STEVEN DAVIS, 42, of Tuscaloosa, entered his guilty plea before U.S. District Judge L. Scott Coogler. Davis admitted stealing a medical parcel containing about 180 tablets of hydrocodone from the mail on July 6, 2012, while he worked as a distribution clerk at the Skyland Post Office. The parcel was addressed to someone on Lake Lurleen in Coker, Ala.
Davis also pleaded guilty to breaking into the Skyland Post Office on June 15, 2014, intending to commit theft, after he was fired from the Postal Service.
The maximum penalty for the charges Davis pleaded guilty to is five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. No sentencing date has been set.
The Postal Service OIG and the Postal Inspection Service investigated the case, which Assistant U.S. Attorney Frank Salter is prosecuting.
Morgan County Man Sentenced to 6 1/2 years in Prison for Possessing Child Pornography
BIRMINGHAM – A federal judge on last Wednesday sentenced a Morgan County Man to more than six years in prison for possessing child pornography obtained over the Internet, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.
Walter Scott Simpson, 42, of Danville, pleaded guilty in July to one count of possessing child pornography. U.S. District Judge R. David Proctor sentenced Simpson to 6 1/2 years in prison, followed by 15 years of supervised release. The judge ordered Simpson into custody following the hearing.
Simpson used the Internet and a peer-to-peer file-sharing software program to possess and access images of child pornography between January 2011 and May 2012, according to his plea agreement with the government. A sentencing document the government filed Tuesday states Simpson used his computer, the Internet and the file-sharing program to possess at least 25,443 images of child pornography, which included images of children under 12 years old engaged in sexually explicit conduct, and images depicting sadistic and masochistic conduct with prepubescent children.
Undercover law enforcement officers received child pornography in January 2012 from a computer using peer-to-peer software, according to Simpson’s plea agreement. The FBI tracked the computer to Simpson’s Danville residence, where agents executed a search warrant for computer media in May 2012 and found the child pornography, the plea agreement states.
The FBI investigated the case, which Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel J. Fortune prosecuted.
