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Postal worker gets federal probation for stealing medications from the mail
Patriot-News - 8/26/2021
A former Harrisburg postal worker who pleaded guilty to stealing medications from the mail has avoided a federal prison term.
Instead, Candy Ehler, 51, was sentenced to 2 years of probation Thursday by U.S. Middle District Senior Judge Sylvia H. Rambo.
Ehler’s lawyer William Fulton had said her plea agreement required a recommendation of a probation term. She pleaded guilty to three counts of theft of mail by an employee in March.
Investigators said the probe that led to Ehler’s arrest came began in August 2019 after the Postal Service was told that a medication package had not been received. That led to the discovery that several other such packages containing opioid-based medications also were missing, they said.
Those packages required signatures of the recipients, who were not home when delivery was attempted, so the packages were returned to the Lower Paxton Post Office. Video surveillance at that office showed Ehler removing medications from packages that were not on her primary delivery route, investigators said.
Rambo also ordered Ehler to pay a $1,000 fine.
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