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U.S. Postal Service mail carrier sentences to prison for bribery

A Hampton mail carrier was sentenced to a year in prison for accepting bribes.
Credit: Kevork Djansezian
A U.S. Postal service employee leaves the loading dock to deliver mail from the Los Feliz Post Office on February 6, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.

HAMPTON, Va. — A Hampton man was sentenced to a year in prison for bribery on January 7.

According to court documents, 61-year-old Darryl Harding, a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier, was receiving money to driver packages containing marijuana from Seattle to addresses in Hampton on his mail route.

Harding would intercept the packages and deliver them to members of a conspiracy in return for cash. Harding was paid as much as $300 for each package he delivered.

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