According to the Department of Justice a Slidell man plead guilty this week, admitting he stole mail from USPS blue mailboxes.
According to court records 26 YO Ronald Riley admitted to using banking information taken from the stolen mail to create fraudulent checks. These fake checks were then used to defraud federally insured banks.
Riley also stole and used the identity of other people to execute the scheme.
Riley is scheduled to be sentenced by a federal judge on June 28. He faces a maximum sentence of up to five years in prison for the conspiracy charge and a mandatory two-year prison sentence for the identity theft.
