South Miami USPS worker stole money orders from apartment rent drop boxes: cops
A United States Postal Service worker was arrested Wednesday for stealing money orders from rent drop boxes, the South Miami Police Department said.
This week, a man went to the South Miami Police Department station to report stolen and fraudulently cashed money orders, according to an arrest report.
He told police he placed four money orders inside a rent drop box on Dec. 5 at Villa Fontana Apartments, located at 7540 SW 59th Court, the report said. His landlord later told him that the rent payment was never received.
Documentation from Western Union showed the money orders had been cashed by Jayven Christian Jolly, the report said.
There was already an active investigation with several victims who had their rent money stolen from apartment drop boxes. Jolly, 31, is accused of stealing and cashing more than $5,400 in money orders in total from four people.
Video surveillance footage from a Navy Federal Credit Union branch showed Jolly had several money orders and was cashing them through an ATM, the report said. Police also confirmed Jolly was a USPS employee operating out of the South Miami Post Office branch.
He was arrested Wednesday morning at his North Miami Beach home, the report said. While being transported by police, Jolly gave a “turn-by-turn account” of the locations and apartment complexes involved.
He is facing charges of organized scheme to defraud, communications fraud over $300, forgery, uttering forged instruments and third-degree grand theft, court records show.
Jolly was listed Thursday as having “bond[ed] out per corrections” from the Miami-Dade Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, jail records show. He did not have an attorney representing him yet, according to court records.
South Florida USPS spokesperson Debra Jean Fetterly confirmed Jolly is employed with the postal service and is on non-duty status. She did not disclose what position he held at the postal service.
“Due to privacy issues, the Postal Service does not publicly discuss personnel matters,” Fetterly said.
