Postal Service worker indicted in mail theft

An employee of the U.S. Postal Service has been indicted in federal court on mail theft charges.

James Terry Hadley is accused of taking checks and a package between August and January 2002, according to an indictment in U.S. District Court dated May 1. He is charged with five counts of theft of mail by a postal employee.

Three of the checks were from the U.S. Treasury and totaled $6,781.35, the indictment stated, while two other checks were from Avaya Inc., and added up to $360. The package, according to the indictment, was from Lands End Direct Merchants, a clothing catalog.