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Postal Carrier Gets Probation in Mail Theft Case

By: North County Times wire services

SAN DIEGO - A former postal carrier who admitted stealing DVDs intended for customers on his route was sentenced Friday to three years probation, ordered to do 120 hours of volunteer work and pay $607 in fines.

Brian Dismuke, 43, pleaded guilty earlier this year to misdemeanor grand theft. He was caught taking Netflix DVDs that were supposed to be delivered to people on his Golden Hill route, said Deputy District Attorney Joan Stein.

Judge George W. Clarke noted the defendant had received letters of commendation from former California Gov. Gray Davis and the governor of Illinois during his 22 years in the Navy.

The judge said some of Dismuke’s postal supervisors, as well as people on his route, wrote letters on his behalf.

Other than the current offense, Dismuke had a totally “unblemished record,” the judge said.

“I don’t think any court’s going to see you again,” the judge told the defendant.

Clarke imposed 180 days in jail but stayed the sentence as long as Dismuke successfully completes probation.

“I feel really bad about what I did,” Dismuke told the judge. “You will not see me again, sir.”

During his probation, Dismuke cannot work in a job where his primary duty is to deliver packages or mail, the judge said.

Dismuke, a letter carrier for four years, is now a chef at a private care facility, his attorney said.

Nothing new in this discwrite.uk article if you’ve been following the kiosk.net posts, but a good recap of the past couple months. Factors such as Netflix, Akimbo, TV with internet hook up, and copyright infringement are analyzed and resorted to paint a possible picture of the future.

To recap: Things are moving ahead, slowly but surely. Not as quickly as some would have thought at the turn of the century, but gradually. Given a little more time and a few advances in technology, downloading will become the weapon of choice for consumers, but not yet.

Or, more accurately, Webcasted.

According to Yahoo! News, and they’re never wrong, Netflix is planning to webcast their 2nd Quarter 2005 Earnings conference call. The conference call, to be held on July 25th, 2005, will be broadcasted live on the Netflix website in their Investor Relations section. For those of you out there without the internet (say hi to your librarian for me), you can still listen in on the super-exciting conference call via telephone.

Full article here.