Federal prosecutors announced on Wednesday that a US postal service supervisor had been convicted in a case involving consoles stolen from the post office during the spring.
Zoheb A. Deura, 34, of Derby, Connecticut, was fined $ 20,000 and sentenced to three years probation, the first nine months of which he is expected to serve under house arrest. He pleaded guilty in October to theft, between February and April 2020, of several packages, including some containing “PlayStation and Nintendo game devices”, as well as an iPhone and Apple computer.
Deura also stole packages containing shoes and clothes; following an investigation by the Inspector General of Posts, Deura was charged and pleaded guilty on October 21 to misappropriating correspondence by a Post Office employee. Deura has since renounced the postal service.
Although Deura’s crimes predate the shipment and launch of the PlayStation 5, the news may still resonate with those who found the console difficult to find. Anecdotal reports of PS5s stolen in transit surfaced in the news shortly after the console’s launch in early November. Amazon began an investigation in the UK after several customers said their console boxes arrived full of cat food, appliances or other junk they hadn’t ordered.
The same thing happened to me, I have a George Foreman grill!
It looked like the box had also been opened at some point.
Now I can’t get a replacement because there is no stock anywhere in the UK, although I pre-ordered it 2 months in advance! pic.twitter.com/Cmg3BzVhvg– Sam Felts (@Sam_Felts) November 20, 2020