May 17, 2012
Gambling mailman's luck soured when inspectors caught him stealing mail
AnonymousDaily Item
WILLIAMSPORT - A former letter carrier in Shamokin who stole contents of mail not addressed to him to support a gambling addiction has been placed on two years probation.
Terms of the probation for Joseph E. Clemas Jr. 40, of the Pottsville area, include a prohibition on any kind of gambling, including the state lottery.
“I completely messed up a real opportunity,” Clemas told U.S. Middle District Magistrate Judge William I. Arbuckle III Thursday at the sentencing hearing.
He lost his job with the Postal Service, which he said he enjoyed, and is now a truck driver earning less money. He told Arbuckle he is in counseling for his gambling addiction.
Besides probation, Clemas must pay a $500 fine and make restitution of $1,300. When he pleaded guilty in January, a government prosecutor said the thefts began in December 2010.
Clemas was caught when investigators watched him open a piece of test mail last June 20.
Terms of the probation for Joseph E. Clemas Jr. 40, of the Pottsville area, include a prohibition on any kind of gambling, including the state lottery.
“I completely messed up a real opportunity,” Clemas told U.S. Middle District Magistrate Judge William I. Arbuckle III Thursday at the sentencing hearing.
He lost his job with the Postal Service, which he said he enjoyed, and is now a truck driver earning less money. He told Arbuckle he is in counseling for his gambling addiction.
Besides probation, Clemas must pay a $500 fine and make restitution of $1,300. When he pleaded guilty in January, a government prosecutor said the thefts began in December 2010.
Clemas was caught when investigators watched him open a piece of test mail last June 20.
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