The Independence Township woman accused of stealing outgoing mail from several of her neighbors was sentenced recently to serve a minimum of 15 months in jail.
According to information gathered from the Michigan Department of Corrections? Offender Tracking Information System,Tammy Sue Brosier, 46, was sentenced in 6th Judicial Court and is currently lodged at Scott Correctional Facility in Plymouth Township.
Brosier was convicted on 17 counts of uttering and publishing’illegally altering and cashing checks’as well as one count of home invasion.
Brosier, a self-admitted drug abuser, was identified last winter by police investigating complaints of missing mail and bills that never reached their destination.
Police claim the woman snatched outgoing mail from neighborhood boxes over a period of several months, each time altering and cashing checks left for postal collection.
Detectives had obtained checks with Brosier’s name written in’she simply applied correction fluid over the designated payee, then filled in her own name’as well as video confirming she cashed the checks at different banks.
Brosier apparently had little or no difficulty cashing the checks.
The incidents took place took place between Oct. 1, 2006 and March 10, 2007.
Each of the 17 uttering and publishing charges carries a minimum sentence of 17 months and a maximum sentence of 14 years. The second-degree home invasion charge carries a minimum sentence 17 months, and a maximum sentence 15 years October 1, 2006.
Brosier will be released no earlier than May 16, 2009, and no later than Dec. 16, 2022.