USPS mail carrier charged with stealing credit card on route to pay for plastic surgery

QUEENS, NYC (TCD) --

A United States Postal Service mail carrier is accused of stealing a credit card on her route and using it to pay for plastic surgery in 2019.

The Queens County District Attorney's Office detailed the accusations Thursday against 31-year-old Queens resident Shakera Small.

A resident on 168th Street in Jamaica, Queens, a borough of New York City, reportedly received a credit card statement with an $8,000 charge to Long Island Plastic Surgery sometime between August and September 2019. He called the bank and informed them he neither received the card nor did he authorize the charge.

Small allegedly used an alias and a forged driver's license at a consultation appointment at Long Island Plastic Surgery on August 17, 2019, for an elective surgical procedure. According to the statement, Small allegedly put down a $1,000 deposit for the surgery on the credit card.

The card she gave on August 17 linked to her personal credit union account, the D.A.'s Office said, but when she paid the balance for the procedure on August 30, she allegedly used the stolen card. Small had the surgery September 3, 2019.

The Associated Press reports the Sept. 3 operation was a breast lift procedure.

Shakera Small was charged with identity theft and grand larceny, among other charges. If convicted, she faces up to seven years in prison.

The New York Post reports Small told investigators she regularly stole envelopes she knew had credit cards in them and handed them over to a man named "Rizzo," court papers allege. In exchange, Rizzo obtained the fake ID to help her undergo the breast lift, the Post reports.

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