A former mailman from Barron County will not spend any time behind bars for stealing over four-thousand-dollars worth of Menards’ rebate checks.
Joshua Copas from Cumberland pleaded guilty this week to stealing the check while he was delivering mail last year. The case broke when a woman called Menards asking about her rebate check. The store told her it’d already been spent. Investigators then tracked down Copas and found that he’d stolen more than 30 other checks. In all, prosecutors say Copas stole 45-hundred dollars in checks. All but two of them were supposed to be delivered along his mail route.
The judge sentenced him to probation.
