OKLAHOMA CITY – A man who owned and operated a Mail Station in north Oklahoma City pleaded guilty to identity theft and possession of stolen mail.
Joshua Ray Campbell, also known as Joshua Morgan, 41, admitted that for 13 months, from March 2016 through April 2017, he had “conspired with G.W. and others” to steal mail from rented boxes at his store and from mailboxes “in and around Oklahoma City.”
The mail contained bank account information, credit and debit cards, checks, and personally identifiable information that was used to “fraudulently obtain funds belonging to or in the possession of financial institutions,” court records reflect.
Campbell initially was indicted on 20 counts – conspiracy to commit bank fraud, a dozen charges of mail fraud, five charges of identity theft, and two counts of illegal transactions – but pleaded guilty to two felony charges.
He was sentenced last month by U.S. District Judge Joe Heaton to three and a half years in federal prison. Campbell also must pay $49,154 in restitution to five banks, the Oklahoma Humane Society, and the Oklahoma Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association.
Campbell’s co-conspirator, Gena Michele Walker, also known as Gena Michele Turner, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess stolen mail and was sentenced in September 2018 to serve 21 months in prison and pay $9,938 restitution to one of the affected banks.
Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC) records indicate Walker/Turner, 50, has been in and out of state prisons since 1996 and is incarcerated in a state penal facility in downtown Oklahoma City.
State court records show she pleaded guilty in 2015 to concealing stolen property and making a false declaration of ownership to a pawnbroker; pleaded guilty in 2016 to possession of cocaine and marijuana; and pleaded guilty in 2017 to possession of methamphetamine and marijuana, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, and eluding a police officer.
The federal charges arose from an investigation by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Oklahoma City Police Department, the Nicoma Park Police Department, The Village Police Department and the Edmond Police Department, U.S. Attorney Timothy Downing said.