Thrill-Riding Former Postal Worker Pleads Guilty in Workers' Compensation Fraud Case

Wednesday, August 16, 2017 | 0

A former West Carrollton letter carrier receiving workers’ compensation benefits while seen on video surveillance riding a slide at Orlando’s SeaWorld reached a plea deal on Monday with federal prosecutors.

Laticha Schroyer, 43, of Dayton, was to be tried on theft and false statements charges beginning Tuesday but agreed to plead guilty to one count of misdemeanor false statements related to federal workers’ compensation benefits, the Dayton Daily News reported.

U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Rose scheduled Schroyer’s sentencing for Dec. 15 and ordered a pre-sentence investigation. He said the federal misdemeanor Schroyer is pleading guilty to is punishable by up to one year in prison, a fine of up to $100,000, restitution and one year of supervised release, the newspaper reported.

Schroyer reported in May 2015 that she was injured while lifting a heavy package and claimed she could not sit, stand or walk for more than five or 10 minutes at a time, and had trouble getting in and out of her postal vehicle.

Federal prosecutors, however, obtained video from SeaWorld in Florida showing Schroyer on the waterslide thrill ride HooRoo Run at the Aquatica water park, and from Dayton International Airport, where she carried a bag and walked without assistance.

She was charged with one count of stealing public money or records in connection with  defrauding the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation of about $5,000.

Investigators said Schroyer and her boyfriend flew to Orlando in June 2015, and the following month rode in a car to vacation in Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Arizona and South Dakota, where she visited Mount Rushmore.