{"id":5324,"date":"2026-09-26T13:31:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T18:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/26\/st-louis-man-pleads-guilty-in-20000-mail-scheme\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T13:31:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T18:31:58","slug":"st-louis-man-pleads-guilty-in-20000-mail-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/26\/st-louis-man-pleads-guilty-in-20000-mail-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Man Pleads Guilty in $20,000 Mail Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 September 26, 2026 (STL.News) A 28-year-old St. Louis man has pleaded guilty in federal court after admitting he offered a U.S. Postal Service carrier $20,000 for the mail in her truck and access to her postal route, an unusual bribery case unfolding amid a broader federal effort to combat mail theft and crimes targeting postal employees. Ty-Hunter Collins, 28, pleaded guilty Wednesday, Sept. 23, to one count of bribery of a public official in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Federal court records identify the case as United States v. Ty-Hunter Collins,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/st-louis-man-pleads-guilty-in-20000-mail-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 September 26, 2026 (STL.News) A 28-year-old St. Louis man has pleaded guilty in federal court after admitting he offered a U.S. Postal Service carrier $20,000 for the mail in her truck and access to her postal&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5326,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324\/revisions\/5326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}