Local woman pleads guilty to theft in Star Village

RAPID CITY—A Rapid City woman pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to stealing $65,000 and multiple passports after knocking over a mailbox with her car in February 2021. Courtney Twiss, of Rapid City, backed into a mailbox cluster at Star Village in February 20, 2021, detaching it from its base. Twiss later returned with a wheelbarrow to take the mailbox to her residence nearby, emptied the mail out of the box, discarding the box about 100 feet from the home and covered the mailbox with an old mattress.

According to court documents, law enforcement searched Twiss’s home on February 25, and “located over 200 pieces of mail with different names and addresses, checks totaling $65,971.17 recovered credit/debit cards as well as US Passports.”

Twiss was originally facing four charges but pleaded guilty to two Tuesday afternoon, bank fraud and theft of property of the United States Postal Service. She faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison and/or a $1,000,000 fine for bank fraud and three years in prison and/or a $250,000 fine for stealing USPS property. A sentencing hearing has yet to be set.

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