U.S. Attorney Russell Coleman announced Monday a United States Postal Service employee had been charged after willfully obstructing the passage of mail.
Coleman said 30-year-old DeShawn Bojgere, of Louisville, has been charged with the delay or destruction of mail, a federal crime under 18 United States Code 1703.
According to the criminal complaint, sometime between October 5 and October 15, Bojgere allegedly discarded a large quantity of mail. The mail, found in a construction dumpster on Galene Drive in Louisville, included approximately 111 general election absentee ballots from the Jefferson County Clerk’s Office being mailed to voters. The dumped mail also included approximately 69 mixed class pieces of flat rate mail, 320-second class pieces of mail, and two national election campaign flyers from a Florida political party.
An analysis of the mail revealed it was from a single route for one scheduled delivery day.
Bojgere admitted to special agents with the U.S. Postal Service that he was responsible for discarding the mail in the construction dumpster. Bojgere is no longer employed by the postal service.
Copies of the mail were made to retain as evidence, while all of the recovered mail was placed back in the mail stream for delivery to its intended recipients.
If convicted at trial, he faces no more than 5 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and one year of supervised release after serving the sentence.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Chris Tieke and Tom Dyke. The case is being investigated by the United States Postal Service Office of the Inspector General.
