United States v. James Glover

CourtCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
DecidedOctober 21, 2025
Docket24-13514
StatusUnpublished

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NOT FOR PUBLICATION

In the United States Court of Appeals For the Eleventh Circuit ____________________ No. 24-13514 Non-Argument Calendar ____________________

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, versus

JAMES GLOVER, Defendant-Appellant. ____________________ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama D.C. Docket No. 2:23-cr-00058-JIC-JTA-1 ____________________

Before NEWSOM, GRANT, and MARCUS, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM: James Glover appeals his convictions and 24-month sen- tence, following his convictions for one count of postal theft by a U.S. Postal Service employee and three counts of mail fraud. On USCA11 Case: 24-13514 Document: 49-1 Date Filed: 10/21/2025 Page: 2 of 17

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appeal, Glover argues that: (1) the district court erred in denying his motion for judgment of acquittal based on insufficiency of the evidence; (2) the court erroneously admitted two videos of him opening packages; and (3) at sentencing, the court improperly ap- plied a six-point enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2B1.1(b)(1)(D) due to an overcalculation of economic loss. After careful review, we affirm. I. Over many months in 2022 in Montgomery, Alabama, nu- merous checks from local addresses were removed from the mail, altered or forged, and cashed or deposited at banks. This affected checks from both Reinhardt Toyota and Jack Ingram Automotive. At trial, Reinhardt employee Brian Gremaux testified that after several Reinhardt checks were altered and deposited in mid- 2022, the dealership developed a plan to expose the scheme. The plan worked -- Reinhardt issued three checks and put them in the mail on September 16, 2022; the checks were stolen; they were fraudulently altered; and altered versions were published to a bank. In an effort to exclude employee theft, Gremaux “started watching the videos.” Ultimately, the only person to touch the September 16 mail was Glover, a postal carrier whose route included Rein- hardt. From an exterior camera, Glover was seen taking the three envelopes into his mail truck, going through the mail, putting sev- eral pieces in his backpack, and stowing the rest behind his seat. Officer Shawn Brosius of the City of Millbrook testified that, on October 3, 2022, he was dispatched to a fight, where he arrested USCA11 Case: 24-13514 Document: 49-1 Date Filed: 10/21/2025 Page: 3 of 17

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Keldric Jones (“Keldric”). After Keldric threw a handgun into his car, Officer Brosius searched the vehicle and found a cache of checks, many from car dealerships, a printer, two laptops, and blank checks inserted into the paper slot of the printer. Thirty-nine checks were seized in total, including checks belonging to Jack In- gram. Jillian Vessey, a forensic latent print analyst with the U.S. Postal Service, testified that Jack Ingram check 108261 seized from Keldric contained two partial fingerprints of Glover. Special Agent Brandon Henderson of the U.S. Postal Service testified that after reviewing Reinhardt’s security video depicting Glover putting mail into a backpack, Henderson installed a covert security camera inside Glover’s truck. Glover was captured on video on October 3 inside the truck, holding mail up to bright light to examine its contents three separate times, and at least one piece of mail was addressed to Reinhardt. Glover set aside and photo- graphed eight checks on October 6 while parked at Reinhardt, and later in December, he opened and examined multiple parcels. The checks from October 3 and 6, however, were never stolen. According to Henderson, Glover was friends with Marcus Jones (“Marcus”), a U.S. postal carrier and Keldric’s father -- Glover and Marcus were friends on social media and tagged each other in posts. In addition, a search of Glover’s phone messages revealed that he wrote “Rocky iCustoms” in November 2022, “Need to come on back with these slips[.] [T]he holiday season is approach- ing kemosabe.” A “slip” is a check. In another message, he sent “Fetti Boi” a picture of Keldric with a lot of cash. A few days later, USCA11 Case: 24-13514 Document: 49-1 Date Filed: 10/21/2025 Page: 4 of 17

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he messaged Fetti Boi, “Marcus . . . going ham with that scheme but my biggest problem is y’all posting that shit like y’all not seeing everybody talking about how them ppl watching the book like hell going to put the Pholks on themselves and swear somebody snitch.” He also wrote Fetti Boi, “He wanna give a nigga 1,5. . . 1,8. . . 2,5. . . for about 30 40 bands! This other git willing to give 20% of the total amount.” “Bands” are thousands of dollars. Special Agent Henderson said it was unlikely that a single mailman could steal all 39 checks in Keldric’s vehicle because the checks came from multiple postal routes. However, the check with Glover’s fingerprint corresponded to a route Glover worked where Jack Ingram was located. Relevant to the theft and mail fraud counts for September 16 (Counts 1 and 3), Henderson testi- fied that another postal worker, Quincy Holley, did not work that day; payroll records, video evidence, and Glover’s mail scanning device indicated that Glover worked that day. Relevant to the mail fraud counts for October 3 and 6 (Counts 5 and 6), Henderson properly identified Glover in several videos depicting him examin- ing mail, although Henderson had misidentified Glover in a differ- ent blurry photo. GPS data of Glover’s route and his mail scanning device corroborated that he was on route at the time of the videos. Glover testified on his own behalf. He conceded he was in the September 16 Reinhardt video but said the mail in his “book bag” was from his other job as a human resources manager that his supervisor had asked him to deliver to the post office. He claimed he only retrieved one envelope from Reinhardt and the other mail USCA11 Case: 24-13514 Document: 49-1 Date Filed: 10/21/2025 Page: 5 of 17

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was already in the backpack. He also gave innocent explanations for his digital chats and admitted Keldric had offered him money to steal checks on two occasions, but he declined. As for his finger- print on the seized check, Glover testified he had smoked mariju- ana in Keldric’s car. And as for the videos of him inspecting mail and packages, he said people sometimes asked him to throw away their junk mail or to return certain mail to the post office where “we have a process for unclaimed mail or unwanted mail.” The jury found Glover guilty of Count 1 (postal theft by an employee on September 16, 2022), Count 3 (mail fraud on Septem- ber 16, 2022), Count 5 (mail fraud on October 3, 2022), and Count 6 (mail fraud on October 6, 2022). He was acquitted on the other counts. This timely appeal follows. II. We review de novo a challenge to the sufficiency of the evi- dence and the denial of a Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 29 motion for judgment of acquittal, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the government and making all reasonable infer- ences and credibility choices in support of the jury’s verdict. United States v. Gamory, 635 F.3d 480, 497 (11th Cir. 2011). Ordinarily, we review a district court’s evidentiary rulings, including the admissi- bility of evidence under Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b), for abuse of discretion. United States v. Brown, 665 F.3d 1239, 1247 (11th Cir. 2011).

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