Treyvon Alexander

One thousand four hundred and eighty checks. That is what Treyvon Alexander and his operation were convicted of stealing from the mail and converting — a face value of approximately $7.4 million. In the Southern District of Ohio, prosecutors described it as the largest known check-theft operation from the mail in Cincinnati's history.

Alexander, 21, of Georgetown, Kentucky, was the end of the chain. Destiny Neblett, a postal employee, took mail from the Cincinnati processing plant where she worked and handed the checks to her boyfriend, Lonnel Lucas; Lucas sold them to Alexander, who processed them and turned them into cash. Many were recovered in searches and delivered to the people they were meant for. He pleaded guilty in February 2025 to conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and on September 12, 2025, Judge Douglas R. Cole sentenced him to 72 months in the S.D. Ohio and ordered more than $500,000 in restitution. [SOURCE: US Attorney's Office, S.D. Ohio, September 12, 2025; FOX19]

The check-fraud supply chain has two halves: the person who removes the checks from the mail, and the person who converts them. Case 090 (Charlie Banks Green Jr.) documents a postal worker who supplied stolen checks to rings. Case 091 documents the ring side — the operation that receives, converts, and monetises the stolen instruments.

They are not necessarily the same supply chain — Green operated in California, Alexander in Ohio. But they represent the same crime structure from different positions. Together they describe a complete supply-chain crime: supply and demand, insider and operator.

Cases 089, 090, and 091 together span roughly 40 years of check fraud in the United States — from E.F. Hutton's corporate check-kiting in 1980-82, through Charlie Green's 2019-2023 postal theft operation, to Treyvon Alexander's Cincinnati ring, sentenced in 2025. The persistence of check fraud across this span is informative: despite the rise of digital payment and the decline of paper checks as the dominant payment instrument, check fraud has increased in the US in recent years, not decreased.

The US Treasury and the Postal Inspection Service documented a sharp increase in mail theft and check fraud cases beginning approximately 2020-2021, driven by organised criminal networks that developed infrastructure specifically to exploit the mail. The pandemic period's high volume of government-issued checks (stimulus, unemployment) created a particularly rich target environment. Alexander's case falls squarely in this period.

The six-year sentence is at the serious end for a check-fraud case of this scale. Prosecutors' use of 'largest known' characterisation for Cincinnati, and the S.D. Ohio's decision to pursue a federal case rather than a state charge, both reflect the organised-crime dimension of the ring rather than opportunistic individual theft.