Dunkerton Postal Employee Arrested

After an investigation, a Dunkerton postal employee was arrested for theft.

On Wednesday, March 2nd  the Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office received information from the Office of the Inspector General who had completed an investigation into the Dunkerton Post Office at the request of the United States Postal Service.

An investigation showed that Susan Knapp, 41, of 203 Wilmot Ave. Readlyn, Iowa, while working as a Postal Clerk at the Dunkerton Post Office had pocketed Postal Service funds in the amount of $2,724.54 from the sale of money orders and stamps for her own personal use. This occurred between March and October of 2015. Ms. Knapp had been suspended from the postal service.

A Sheriff's Investigator applied for and was granted an Arrest Warrant charging Knapp with Theft in the Second Degree. Knapp was located by the Bremer County Sheriff's Office at her residence and was extradited back to Black Hawk County and taken to the Black Hawk County Jail in Waterloo where she posted a bond of $15,000.00.