A mail carrier at the Muldoon post office in Anchorage is accused of stealing patient-bound prescription drugs from 2013 to 2015.
Brandon Gruendler allegedly stole the prescription drugs over a roughly two-year period — between October 2013 and mid-January, according to federal information filed Tuesday. He is charged with one count of mail theft.
As a mail carrier, Gruendler was responsible for handling different kinds of mail, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Alaska. He had access to the mail through his employee badge.
“The removal of these prescription drugs from the mail thus deprived the individual patients of the medications that had been prescribed for their needs and that they were waiting to receive in the mail,” charges say.
Gruendler was placed on administrative leave without pay until the final disposition of the investigation, according to USPS spokesman Ernie Swanson.
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