From: "N. L. Cobb", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
United Airlines Employee Sentenced for Theft of U.S. Mail And
Sale Of Stolen Guns, Reports U.S. Attorney
BOSTON, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- A United Airlines employee
was sentenced today in federal court for stealing U.S. mail from Logan
Airport and later selling eight firearms stolen from that mail.
United States Attorney Donald K. Stern announced today
that EDMUND GUAY, age 36, of Lynn, was sentenced for stealing registered
U.S. mail containers at Logan Airport on April 19, 2000. GUAY was also sentenced
for a second charge that he subsequently sold eight firearms that were stored
in those mail containers. The Court sentenced GUAY to two years and
three months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release. GUAY
was also ordered to pay up to $84,842 in restitution to the victims of the
postal theft who may file claims.
According to documents previously field with the court and
information presented at prior court hearings, on or about April 19, 2000, three
shipments of registered U.S. mail contained in red and blue containers transported
from Atlanta to Boston on Delta Airlines Flight #1522 were reported to be
missing. Shortly after these containers were unloaded, a man (later identified as GUAY)
in a United Airlines uniform, approached another Delta Airlines employee.
GUAY told this employee that he was going to the U.S. Postal Service Air
Mail Center ("A.M.C.") and offered to transport the three containers there for
her and he took the containers via a motorized United Airlines tug cart out of
her immediate work area in the direction of the A.M.C. The three containers of
registered U.S. mail never arrived at the A.M.C. One of the three containers
contained eight Beretta 9mm pistols.
Early the following morning, April 20, 2000, GUAY delivered eight Beretta 9mm
pistols to another individual in Lynn for sale. Based upon each firearm's serial
number, law enforcement agents were able to determine that the 9mm pistols
that GUAY possessed on April 20, 2000 were the same pistols stolen from the
containers at Logan Airport the previous day.
The case was investigated by Postal Inspectors of the U.S. Postal Inspection
Service and Special Agents of the Department of Treasury, U.S. Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms, and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S.
Attorney Denise Jefferson Casper of Stern's Major Crimes Unit.
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Let me get this straight, some poor guy in Tallahassee gets five
years for buying a gun he thought he could legally own, submitting
himself to a background check, and they get every Fed in Massachusetts
on this guy who steals eight guns and he gets two years and three
months?
Steve.
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