CHARLOTTE, N.C. - - Four people are facing charges after apparently stealing around 2,500 blank USPS cash orders from a Charlotte-area post workplace, U.S. District Lawyer Dena King stated Thursday.

The indictment declares that the four suspects acquired the money orders in between November 2020 and February 2023.

Officials said they used genuine United States Postal Service money orders as "templates" to make falsified and created money orders which they then deposited into several bank and cooperative credit union accounts.

According to the indictment, the four suspects would then withdraw the money before the banks detected the fraud.

Authorities stated they redeemed around 800 of the stolen money orders, triggering losses that totaled more than $750,000.

Ravenna Lee Dorsey, Jr., 33, of Charlotte, Jaren Jamar Hopkins-Benton, 28, of Charlotte, Gregory Jeremy Singleton, 27, of Charlotte, and Shawn Joanta Brooks, 40, of Shelby, North Carolina, were each charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States by possessing and passing forged and altered USPS cash orders, and belongings of stolen and fraudulently transformed USPS money orders.

The Department of Justice stated the conspiracy charge and each count of belongings of taken and fraudulently altered USPS money orders bring a maximum penalty of five years in jail and a $250,000 fine per count.

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