Ex-post office clerk convicted of robbery

A former clerk at the Wyandanch post office was convicted last week of helping to stage a 2009 robbery of that facility when she worked there, according to officials.

Stephanie Lloyd, 25, of Laurelton, Queens, was convicted of conspiracy, robbery, and the use of a weapon in the commission of a robbery, officials said.

According to Assistant U.S. Attorneys Lara Treinis Gatz and Thomas Sullivan, Lloyd staged the robbery to claim the incident so disturbed her that she had to retire on workers' compensation. She had taken a workers' compensation leave after an actual holdup at the post office in 2006, officials said.

Lloyd's then-boyfriend, Travis Walker, and several others were previously convicted in the armed robbery of the post office, in which $7,700 in cash was taken. Walker testified as a government witness against his former girlfriend, officials said.

Lloyd has maintained that her conversations with Walker about the post office's operations were just talk, according to officials.

After the verdict, U.S. District Court Judge Arthur Spatt ordered Lloyd held without bail, pending sentencing.

Lloyd faces up to 15 years in prison.

Lloyd's attorney could not be reached for comment.

During Walker's trial in November, Postal Inspector Tosha Dennis said she suspected that the robbery had to be an inside job because the thieves were familiar with the details of the Wyandanch office's operations.

Dennis said she subpoenaed the telephone numbers that used the cellphone towers nearest the post office at 5 a.m., the time of the robbery, and compared them with the cellphone calls of post office employees.

In the month of the robbery, there were 467 calls between Lloyd's and Walker's numbers, Dennis said.