When the ambulance pulled away from a Great Falls house on the last day of August 2023, the door was unlocked and the checkbook was on the couch. The neighbors next door took the easy door, and a federal judge took four years from one of them.
Four Detroit defendants, including two former mail processing clerks, were sentenced in a scheme that moved more than 10,000 stolen checks with a combined face value above $63 million. The marketplace was a Telegram channel. The fuel was the trust people still place in a blue mailbox.
Shannon Kurrie walked into banks in Michigan and Indiana with someone else's name in her hand. Federal prosecutors say she did it well enough to clear a quarter of a million dollars before the float ran out.