BANGOR (AP) – A former Hancock County mail carrier was sentenced Tuesday to two weeks in jail for stealing letters that contained prepaid calling cards, retail gift cards and cash.

At her sentencing in U.S. District Court, Angela Young of Eastbrook was also fined $500, ordered to pay $381 in restitution and placed on three years of supervised release after serving her sentence.

People on Young’s rural mail route complained that they had not been getting cards that they knew had been sent by other family members for birthdays and other celebrations, according to court documents.

Postal inspectors then discovered that Young had been stealing the cards and letters on her route.

Young, 34, pleaded guilty in November to theft of mail by a postal employee. She was a postal carrier from 1999 to 2005.

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