He also fraudulently received a COVID-19 pandemic relief loan through the Small Business Administration, prosecutors said.

A U.S. Postal Service worker was charged Wednesday for stealing over $1.5 million in checks and fraudulently obtaining a pandemic relief loan.

In addition to the alleged check theft, Virdure fraudulently applied for a PPP loan in 2021 for a tobacco store called Virdure Dynamics.

A U.S. Postal Service mail handler out of St. Louis was indicted Wednesday and accused of pandemic fraud and stealing checks from the mail.

A St. Louis postal worker has been indicted for mail theft and pandemic fraud. Anthony Virdure II, 29, was indicted on Wednesday on three counts of mail theft and one of wire fraud. The indictment claims that Virdure stole checks of more than $1.