A former FedEx driver has been handed a lenient sentence after copping to pilfering and peddling firearms from parcels intended for delivery, a crime traditionally met with harsher penalty but here concluded with a mere six-day stint behind bars. Frank P. O'Toole,40, faced a recommended incarceration of 10 months for his thieving actions, yet U.S. District Court Judge Angel Kelley deemed time served as sufficient punishment, alongside the imposition of three years of supervised release, which will see O'Toole dedicating 250 hours to community service as a redemptive gesture.
The court heard how O'Toole, during his tenure maneuvering a FedEx truck around Middleborough, Mass., masterminded the extraction of three firearms from shipments he was entrusted to shepherd to their rightful recipient—a Federal Firearms Licensee, while between October 2021 and June 2022, his wayward dealings came to a head when the pilfered firearms—a duo of rifles paired with a shotgun—were hawked to an undercover agent over the course of two covert transactions on August 9 and August 12, 2022 patently revealing his illicit side hustle.
This ex-driver's illicit sideline delivered him directly into the arms of law enforcement, with Acting United States Attorney Joshua S. Levy and various chiefs from federal and local bureaus accrediting cooperation in snagging the rogue messenger. "Assistant U.S. Attorney Elianna J. Nuzum of the Major Crimes Unit prosecuted the case," as declared in a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office shared on their official website.
