Kansas mail carrier indicted: 4,404 pieces of mail in her garage, and every political mailer in the pile was Republican

A federal grand jury in Wichita indicted a rural mail carrier from southeast Kansas on Tuesday, Election Day, for stealing thousands of pieces of mail, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Kansas announced.

Kelly R. Cram, 59, of Baxter Springs, worked the rural routes out of the Pittsburg post office. When Postal Service inspector general agents came to her home on Oct. 7, they found about 4,404 pieces of undelivered mail in her garage, the indictment says. About 394 of them were political mailers, and all of them were for Republican candidates or Republican-affiliated PACs. "The agents found no political mail related to candidates of any other political party," the indictment says.

She's charged with one count of unlawful secretion, destruction and delay of mail, which carries up to five years in prison. She was put on administrative leave the day agents found the mail and is due in court in Wichita on Nov. 18. Cram had worked for the Postal Service since 2009. Prosecutors haven't said what her motive was.