A Kentucky man was sentenced to six years in prison after he pleaded guilty to “orchestrating the largest known theft of checks from the mail in Cincinnati.”
Treyvon Alexander, 21, of Georgetown, was sentenced in federal court in Cincinnati Sept. 12 for conspiracy to commit bank fraud after working with others, including a postal employee, to steal over $7 million worth of checks from the mail, according to a news release from the U.S Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio. He pleaded guilty to the charge in February.
Judge Douglas R. Cole sentenced Alexander to 72 months in prison and also ordered him to pay more than half a million dollars in restitution.
According to court documents, former postal employee Destiny Neblett, 23, of Cincinnati, would steal mail from a processing facility during her work hours and turn checks over to her boyfriend, 23-year-old Lonnel Lucas.
Lucas would then sell the checks – which often were made out to various local companies – to Alexander, who processed them and converted the stolen funds.
In total, law enforcement agents identified 1,480 stolen checks with a face value of approximately $7.4 million, the release said. Many of the checks were recovered during the execution of search warrants and delivered by the United States Postal Service to the intended recipient without any actual loss.
Chelsea Panzeca, Alexander’s attorney, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the sentencing.
Neblett pleaded guilty in August 2025 and Lucas is scheduled to appear in federal court for a plea hearing on Sept. 30.
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Man sentenced in Cincinnati’s ‘largest known’ mail theft conspiracy