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   A man who stole at least $24 million in checks with his postal worker   
   girlfriend and another woman will spend 4 1/2 years in federal prison, a   
   judge ruled Thursday.   
      
   As a 27-year-old, Donnell Gardner was involved in a 2023 scheme where the   
   trio posted $12 million in stolen checks to “OG Glass Ceiling,” an online   
   channel on the Telegram app.   
      
   There, people could buy the checks to cash them or try to replicate them,   
   prosecutors said Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Western District of   
   North Carolina.   
      
   The scheme “violated the fundamental expectation of safety” in the United   
   States Postal Service, they said.   
      
   Gardner’s girlfriend and USPS worker Nakedra Shannon, 29, would steal the   
   checks from the mail, and Desiray Carter, 24, would post them online after   
   Gardner redacted some information, according to court documents.   
      
   When someone bought the check, they would get the unredacted version.   
      
   The group made hundreds of thousands of dollars in the scheme, which lasted   
   from April 2023 to July 2023.   
      
   Officers arrested them in November.   
      
   On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Kenneth Bell ordered Gardner and the women   
   to pay more than $100,000 in restitution.   
      
   The largest sum — more than $35,000 — will go to the Carolina Center for   
   Rheumatology & Arthritis Care.   
      
   About $9,000 will go to Rio Rancho Public Schools in New Mexico.   
      
   It was a “serious and selfish offense,” Bell said in court. “A lot of   
   people   
   think this is a victimless crime, but there were folks waiting for   
   government bills, businesses thinking they’d paid their bills to vendors,”   
   Bell said.   
      
   “The ripple effect is a lot.” The theft also included at least $8 million   
   in   
   U.S. Treasury checks, according to the indictment. Gardner pleaded guilty in   
   January to theft of government property and aiding theft of government and   
   to conspiracy to commit financial institution fraud.   
      
   He will serve 54 months in prison and three years supervised release for the   
   charges, Bell said.   
      
   Shannon pleaded guilty to the same crimes in May, but Carter has maintained   
   her not guilty plea since being arrested in November.   
      
   Gardner’s defense attorney, Rick Winiker, said Gardner was “all too   
   human”   
   when he gave into temptation and got involved in the scheme.   
      
   Gardner grew up in a “dangerous environment” and made an “egregious   
   mistake,” Winiker said.   
      
   In court, Gardner apologized to the victims and his family. “I wasn’t   
   raised   
   like that,” he said, as his family — including the grandmother who raised   
   him — sat behind him.   
      
   Gardner, his family and attorney declined to be interviewed by the Observer   
   following the hearing.   
      
   Bell said he did not factor a 2017 offense, possession of marijuana, into   
   Gardner’s sentencing. If Bell had given weight to it, guidelines would have   
   recommended Gardner serve a minimum of five years and three months for the   
   combined charges.   
      
   He had an otherwise clean record. “It strikes the court that that kind of   
   offense, that long ago, doesn’t reflect who you are,” the judge said.   
      
   https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article290195079.html   
      
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