Maine UPS driver sentenced to probation for stealing veterans’ pills

[cheryl]

Maine UPS driver sentenced to probation for stealing veterans’ pills - Portland Press Herald

A UPS delivery truck driver from Maine who stole packages of pills intended for patients who are military veterans was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Portland to serve two years of probation and pay nearly $1,400 in restitution.

 

[rod]

I would have sentenced him to two years in the electric chair.

 

[oldngray]

I am surprised there isn't a civil suit from those veterans who were without their medications. That $1400 in no way compensates them for pain and suffering.

 

[Lineandinitial]

You can't trust those UPS drivers...

 

[Operational needs]

I had a veteran on a route once who got pain meds through the USPS until they switched to FedEx, because his meds kept disappearing. It's not as simple as calling and a new shipment immediately being sent out. The vets have to go through a lot of red tape to get replacements, not to mention the pain they might go through if they run out before the meds arrive. This driver should have gotten jail time.

 

[10 point]

I had a veteran on a route once who got pain meds through the USPS until they switched to FedEx, because his meds kept disappearing. It's not as simple as calling and a new shipment immediately being sent out. The vets have to go through a lot of red tape to get replacements, not to mention the pain they might go through if they run out before the meds arrive. This driver should have gotten jail time.

Stealing pharmaceuticals is a federal offense.
Are the jails that full today that there was no room for this convicted thief?