HAWAII, Hawaii (KHON2) — A U.S. Postal Worker on Hawaiʻi Island has been charged with drug-related offenses.
Officials allege that the worker used her connections to the post office and even her USPS vehicle to transport illicit parcels.
According to court documents, Kalyca Lehua Noelle Agustin is accused of receiving cocaine and heroin in the mail from Los Angeles, which was addressed to her home on Maile Street in Hilo.
Agustin’s main office was the Hilo Post Office, and her assigned route included her home address, officials said.
In an affidavit from a U.S. postal inspection special agent, the agent says that the tracked a suspicious parcel, swapped out the drugs for a tracking beeper, fake narcotics and fluorescent powder, and traced the package along Agustin’s route.
Upon her arrest, fluorescent powder residue was found on Agustin’s hands.
A plea has not yet been entered in this case.