Edmilson Rodrigues Sentenced – Possession of Stolen U.S. Mail
United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha
District of Rhode Island
Providence Man Sentenced for Possession of Stolen U.S. Mail, Violating the Terms of Federal Supervised Release
PROVIDENCE, RI – A Providence man found to be in possession of nearly $200,000 in stolen and fraudulent checks while serving a term of federal supervised release for an unrelated bank fraud conviction has been sentenced to eighteen months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
On February 2, 2023, during his arrest on an unrelated state narcotics charge, Edmilson Rodrigues, 25, was found by Providence Police Detectives to be in possession of ninety-one legitimate checks totaling approximately $170,758.26 and eight fraudulent checks totaling approximately $22,838.01. Also seized was blank check-paper stock used for creating fraudulent checks and a printer.
The United States Postal Inspection Service determined that the legitimate checks seized from Rodrigues’ residence had been mailed out by various businesses but were never received by the intended recipients. Combined with the fraudulent checks, the intended loss totals $193,596.27.
At the time of his arrest on an unrelated state drug charge in February 2023, Rodrigues was serving a term of federal supervised release that followed a sentence of twenty-four months of incarceration imposed by a federal judge in September 2020, as a result of his conviction on bank fraud charges.
Rodrigues pleaded guilty in federal court on November 14, 2023, to a charge of possession of stolen mail. He was sentenced on Thursday by U.S. District Court Judge William E. Smith to eighteen months of incarceration to be followed by three years of federal supervised release. The Court ordered that Rodrigues serve the first three months of federal supervised release at a halfway house.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Ly T. Chin
The matter was investigated by the United States Postal Inspection Service and the Providence Police Department.
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