A Prince George’s County letter carrier has been convicted of destroying mail he was supposed to have delivered.
Prosecutors said a jury convicted 41-year-old Warren C. Bradford, of Upper Marlboro, this week in federal court in Greenbelt.
Bradford was a 15-year veteran of the U.S. Postal Service and was working as a mail carrier in the Capitol Heights post office.
In June 2009, customers on his route began reporting that they didn’t receive mail for days at a time, according to prosecutors. That September, someone saw a postal worker, later identified as Bradford, unload mail from a postal service vehicle and discard the mail in a secluded area in Capitol Heights.
Police officers who responded found the undelivered mails and a large amount of burned mail in a wooded lot, prosecutors said.
Bradford faces up to five years in prison. He is scheduled to be sentenced May 25.
