On October 8, Sylvia Grooms, director of industrial relations for American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Local 199 in Richmond, Va., had grand larceny charges against her indefinitely dropped. Virginia Circuit Court for the City of Richmond issued a "Noelle Prosequi" on all four counts. A "Noelle Prosequi" in a criminal case indicates a decision by the prosecutor to proceed no further. As "'Lectric Law Library" explains: "The effect of a noelle prosequi, when obtained, is to put the defendant without day, but it does not operate as an acquittal; for he may be afterwards reindicted, and even upon the same indictment, fresh process may be awarded."
On March 23, Sylvia Grooms, director of industrial relations for American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Local 199 in Richmond, Virginia, had all charges of larceny against her dropped and expunged from the public record by the Circuit Court for the City of Richmond. The decision read in part: "Whereas, it further appearing to the Court that the continued existence and possible dissemination of information relating to the four grand larceny charges and arrest of petitioner, Sylvia Yvonne Grooms, may cause circumstances that constitute a manifest injustice to said petitioner."
On June 1, Sylvia Grooms, director of industrial relations for American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Local 199, was indicted in Circuit Court for the City of Richmond, Virginia, on four counts of grand larceny of an unspecified amount from the Richmond union. The indictment follows a joint investigation by the U.S. Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards and Office of Inspector General, along with the U.S. Postal Service's Office of Inspector General.
