U.S. Postal Service Employee From Hyattsville Sentenced For Bank Fraud

HYATTSVILLE, MD — A former U.S. Postal Service employee from Hyattsville has been sentenced for her involvement in a conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud.

According to 28-year-old Alexus Paige Tyson's plea agreement, between August 2019 and October 2020, Tyson helped co-conspirator Travis Nnamani create fraudulent checks using victims’ personal information that Tyson and others at the United States Postal Service took from checks and other documents that victims had mailed. In many instances, checks or other documents mailed by victims were photographed by Tyson or other USPS employees and then the documents were put back into the mail with the victims not knowing their information had been stolen. That information would then be used by Nnamani to create false checks using that information to access funds in victims’ bank accounts.

Tyson also helped recruit other employees at the USPS to do the same, including selling federal stimulus checks they took from the mail. Tyson was the last of three defendants, including Nnamani and another USPS postal worker, Breanna Cartledge, to be sentenced in this case. She has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release.