A former U.S. Postal Service letter provider in Torrance has pleaded responsible to stealing credit score and debit playing cards and checks from the mail and flaunting her spending on luxurious items and holidays on Instagram, federal officers introduced.
Mary Ann Magdamit, 31, of Carson pleaded responsible Monday to at least one depend of conspiracy to commit financial institution fraud, based on a U.S. legal professional’s workplace for the Central District of California information launch. Magdamit has been in federal custody since July 1 and beforehand labored as a letter provider on the Torrance Principal Publish Workplace.
Between 2022 and July 2025, Magdamit allegedly stole mail containing checks, private figuring out info and debit and bank cards earlier than activating the playing cards on-line and utilizing them to make purchases, based on her plea settlement and court docket paperwork. She additionally allegedly offered among the stolen playing cards to her co-conspirators.
Magdamit allegedly had her co-conspirators money the stolen checks, often by utilizing faux identification paperwork, based on the discharge. She additionally posted photographs of her holidays and luxurious items, together with a Rolex watch and stacks of hundred-dollar payments, on Instagram.
In December, legislation enforcement searched Magdamit’s residence and located greater than 130 stolen credit score and debit playing cards, 16 U.S. Division of Treasury checks and an unserialized Glock-clone handgun, also called a “ghost gun,” which was loaded with a 27-round prolonged journal, based on the discharge. Prosecutors say she used the stolen items to purchase luxurious items and fund holidays to Turks and Caicos and Aruba.
Regardless of the go to from legislation enforcement in December, prosecutors say Magdamit continued to make purchases with victims’ bank cards which led to her arrest final month, based on the discharge. A second search of her residence resulted within the discovery of extra stolen bank cards.
Magdamit has a sentencing listening to scheduled for Oct. 27 and faces as much as 30 years in federal jail if convicted.
