Medicine Hat woman gets two years for mail theft linked to 30 mailboxes
Cassandra Chenoweth was arrested in April 2024 as she fled a community mailbox theft in progress, leading investigators to thousands of recovered mail items.
A 44-year-old Medicine Hat woman has been sentenced to two years in prison for her role in a mail theft scheme that police linked to up to 30 mailbox break-ins across the city and surrounding area.
Cassandra Chenoweth was arrested on the evening of April 10, 2024, as she left the scene of a reported mailbox theft in progress. Following her arrest, Medicine Hat Police Service investigators executed search warrants at two storage lockers and a local residence, recovering thousands of reported and unreported mail items, including letters and parcels.
Chenoweth faced a lengthy list of charges, including theft of mail, possession of break-in instruments, making and using a copied key, possession and use of an illegally obtained credit card, identity theft, identity document offences, possession of forged documents, unauthorized use of credit card data, and multiple counts of possession of property obtained by crime. She was sentenced on these charges in Medicine Hat court.
Canada Post worked with investigators to return the recovered mail and packages to their owners once the items were no longer needed as evidence in the case.
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