An Oakland County postal worker admitted to federal authorities that he stole from mail meant for delivery for two years.
Olugbemisola Akinruli was a postal carrier assigned to Waterford.
According to a criminal complaint, USPS officials received information from a postal service customer on Sept. 20 regarding the loss of a $50 AT&T Visa Reward card he was expecting in the mail.
The customer told officials he never received the card, so he contacted AT&T to check the status. AT&T told the customer that the card was redeemed at a CVS Pharmacy in Waterford on Sept. 13.
A CVS ExtraCare loyalty card registered to "Olu Akinruli" was used during the transaction for the gift card.
Officials determined that Akinruli's postal identification photo matched the individual seen in a postal service uniform in the CVS Pharmacy surveillance video.
Akinruli admitted to the theft and the use of the gift card at CVS. He admitted he stole mail assigned to him for delivery for approximately two years.
He estimated he opened thirty to forty pieces of mail and obtained approximately ten to fifteen gift cards.
A consensual search of his wallet recovered nine gift/debit cards that didn't belong to him. According to the criminal complaint, he admitted he got the cards from the mail he had access to as a postal employee.
