ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. -- The postal supervisor who pleaded guilty to stealing other people's mail has learned her sentence.
Suzanne Quarterman, 49, pleaded guilty to theft of mail matter in July.
According to United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill, Quarterman in 2003 was the acting supervisor at the Jacksonville International Annex of the U.S. Postal Service.
Much of the business there involved shop-at-home items, and businesses in that service began reporting an unusually high number of non-deliveries starting in 2004, O'Neill said.
At the same time, employees at the Annex began noticing packages that had been tampered with, and they were all from shop-at-home businesses, most of which O'Neill said was women's jewelry. About 300 such packages were recovered.
In 2008, the Office of Inspector General determined that Quarterman had pawned over 450 items between 2005 and 2008, and the investigation concluded the majority of the items had been taken from packages at the Annex and pawned in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.
O'Neill said Quarterman confessed to taking someone else's driver's license to help conceal her activities. She told investigators she would examine the contents of the packages and steal the jewelry she wanted by placing it in her work gloves, which she then placed in her personal bag.
She faced up to five years in federal prison, but in her sentencing today, Quarterman was given 37 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release.
Quarterman must also pay restitution to ShopNBC ($114,497.87) and QVC ($45,049.36).
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