CANBERRA, ACT, Feb. 12 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release:
Editor's note: Vision and images of the arrest and seized items are available via Hightail.
A contractor to Australia's postal service has been sentenced to two years and three months' imprisonment for using his position to take at least $400,000 worth of items including jewellery, designer luxury goods and alcohol, from mail packages.
The man, 43, was sentenced by the Downing Centre District Court yesterday (11 February, 2025) after he pleaded guilty to three offences in July, 2024.
He can be released after serving 15 months' imprisonment on a recognizance release order, on the condition he is of good behaviour for two years.
The AFP began an inves...