Three people have been indicted on federal charges, accused of stealing checks from Pasco County mailboxes and forging names to cash them.
Rocky Dwayne Phillips, 32, Richard Jolley, 31, and Stephanie Lynn Santilli, 29, all are charged with conspiracy to break open mailboxes and steal mail between Aug. 18 and Sept. 5, 2008.
Phillips and Jolley are serving state prison sentences in other cases.
The checks included international money orders issued by Amscot and MoneyGram Payment Systems, which is allied with Wal-Mart.
The three are accused of opening the mail; taking checks, cash or money orders; and destroying what they couldn't use. They used acetone to chemically remove the recipients' names from the checks and replaced them with their own names or the names of others, the indictment states.
The three are accused of causing $13,000 damage to post office mailboxes and stealing more than 50 pieces of mail. The indictment alleges that they received more than $3,000 from stolen and forged money orders.
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