A former U.S. Postal Service (USPS) worker pleaded guilty Monday to taking checks, credit cards and debit cards from the mail and using them to fund international trips, the U.S Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said.
Mary Ann Magdamit, 31, pleaded guilty to a single conspiracy to commit bank fraud charge, according to a press release. She worked as a letter carrier at the Torrance Main Post Office. Magdamit stole checks, credit cards, debit cards and forms of identification from others’ mail from at least 2022 up to July 2025, a plea agreement and court documents said.
She allegedly activated the cards online, made purchases and sold multiple cards to co-conspirators. Magdamit’s co-conspirators turned in the checks for cash using false identities, according to the attorney’s office. She used stolen funds to buy a Rolex and other luxury goods and fund international trips, some of which she displayed online, the press release read.
Magdamit has been in federal custody since July 1. When law enforcement searched her residence in December 2024, they found 133 stolen credit and debit cards, 16 checks from the U.S. Treasury Department and a loaded “ghost gun,” authorities alleged.
Magdamit continued to use stolen cards after law enforcement searched her home, according to the press release. The former postal worker is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 27 and faces up to 30 years behind bars. She has assented to giving up the Rolex and other luxury goods she has acquired, according to the attorney’s office. (RELATED: Woman Risks Her Life For Opossum, Dies)
Magdamit is not the only USPS worker to have stolen checks. A jury convicted Hachikosela Muchimba, a USPS worker from Washington, D.C. in march of stealing approximately $1.6 million in checks to bankroll a “lavish lifestyle,” according to the New York Post.
