A 31-year-old Queens man is facing felony charges after Nassau County police say he intercepted two checks worth more than $495,000 that a Woodbury company had put in the mail. Raymond Nagaloo was arrested and charged with two counts of second-degree grand larceny, more than a year after the checks disappeared from the mail stream in June 2025.
According to Daily Voice, the Woodbury company mailed the two checks on June 23, 2025, and they were intercepted before ever reaching their intended recipient. The case was investigated by the Nassau County Police Electronics Squad/Fraud & Forgery Section, the unit that handles complex white-collar offenses, financial fraud, and major grand larcenies across the county. Police described the investigation, which stretched more than a year, as thorough before announcing Nagaloo's arrest.
Nagaloo is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday at First District Court in Hempstead, Nassau County's central facility for processing initial felony appearances and setting bail. It remains unclear how the checks were physically pulled from the mail stream, whether Nagaloo acted alone or as part of a larger operation, or whether federal postal inspectors will pursue separate charges — questions the original report left open.
What the Charges Could Mean
Under New York Penal Law § 155.40, second-degree grand larceny is a Class C felony once stolen property tops $50,000, carrying a maximum sentence of 5 to 15 years in state prison upon conviction, according to the Criminal Defense Lawyer resource. With two counts tied to checks totaling over $495,000, Nagaloo faces exposure well above that threshold on each count.
Stealing mail from a U.S. Postal Service receptacle is also a distinct federal crime, carrying penalties of up to five years in prison per offense separate from any state larceny charges, per Newsday. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service recovers more than $1 billion in counterfeit checks and money orders annually as it works to combat check washing and mail interception nationwide, the agency has said.
Part of a Wider Long Island Pattern
The Woodbury case lands amid what regional reporting describes as a growing wave of mail-targeted check theft across Long Island. Newsday reported that a July 2026 indictment in neighboring Suffolk County charged three suspects with using sticky traps to pull nearly $5 million in checks and money orders out of USPS collection boxes.
Federal data underscores how widespread the problem has become. A Treasury Department FinCEN analysis found that financial institutions filed 15,417 Bank Secrecy Act reports tied to mail theft-related check fraud, totaling more than $688 million in suspicious activity, during a single six-month review period in 2023. A January 2025 joint warning from the FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service noted that fraudsters often exploit mandatory fast-fund availability banking rules to withdraw cash before banks can catch altered or stolen checks.
Paper checks remain especially vulnerable targets. According to the Association for Financial Professionals' 2025 survey, 63% of organizations experienced actual or attempted check fraud in 2024, making high-dollar corporate mailings like the one from the Woodbury company an attractive target for thieves.
Recent Nassau Cases Show a Pattern of Large Thefts
The Electronics Squad has handled other major grand larceny cases recently. In April 2026, the same unit arrested two retail employees for second-degree grand larceny over an alleged $175,000 fraudulent return scheme in Valley Stream. Hoodline has also covered a Syosset lawyer's theft case and a Nassau case involving a husband accused of keeping his dead wife's Social Security checks, both prosecuted as second-degree grand larceny.
Nagaloo's case now joins that growing list of high-value theft prosecutions moving through Nassau County courts. Whether investigators uncover a broader network behind the Woodbury interception, or additional federal charges follow, remains to be seen as the case proceeds through arraignment.
