On May 5, 2026, Saahir Irby — a U.S. Postal Service mail processing clerk at the Philadelphia Processing and Distribution Center at 7500 Lindbergh Boulevard — pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to conspiracy to steal government funds, theft of government funds, and mail theft after a fourteen-month federal investigation by the USPS Office of Inspector General, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, Homeland Security Investigations, the FBI, and the Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General revealed he had been stealing U.S. Treasury checks directly from mail sorting machines during overnight shifts beginning in June 2023. Irby, who joined the scheme at age 21 and recruited his cousin Tauheed Tucker into the operation in August 2023 to double access on the sorting floor, sold the stolen envelopes to outside distributors Cory Scott and Alexander Telewoda, who resold the checks to buyers nationwide through the Telegram messaging application. The conspiracy moved over $84 million in face value across fifteen months, with approximately $11 million successfully negotiated at financial institutions. In August 2024, investigators watched Irby personally hand off 112 envelopes containing checks valued at over $248,000 to a buyer in the parking lot of Rivers Casino Philadelphia — a buyer who opened the envelopes wearing gloves. Irby was fired in September 2024 and arrested on September 11, 2024. Sentencing is scheduled for August 2026, where he faces up to 25 years in federal prison, three years of supervised release, and a $1 million fine. Among the victims: an undetermined number of ordinary Americans whose Social Security payments, tax refunds, and federal benefit checks never arrived — their names and payment details sold to strangers on a public messaging app.

Disclaimer: This video is a dramatization based on real events. Some visual content was created with artificial intelligence assistance. Some details have been fictionalized and all names have been changed to protect the privacy of those involved.