BANGOR – A former postal carrier was sentenced in federal court this week to two weeks in prison for stealing mail over three years from residents on her rural route in Franklin.

Angela I. Young, 34, of Eastbrook also received three years of supervised release, a $500 fine and had to pay $381 in restitution for the mail theft, according to court documents.

In November, Young admitted taking cash, prepaid phone cards and retail gift cards from birthday and other cards sent to residents she delivered to between September 1999 through August 2005, according to court documents.

In other, unrelated sentencings this week in U.S. District Court in Bangor:

. A Palmyra man who cashed six counterfeit checks worth more than $3,000 was sentenced to two years in prison and five years of supervised release for bank fraud.

Robert C. Alfano, 26, and his estranged wife, Abigail Alfano, ordered the checks over the Internet and used their home computer to print the name of a Maine contracting firm on them. The checks bore a valid account number from the Bank of New York, which was assigned to Toys R Us, where Alfano worked.

In addition to his prison sentence, which will be served consecutively to his state sentence, Alfano has to pay a fine of $1,000 and $3,100.64 in restitution.

On Nov. 8, 2005, Abigail Alfano was sentenced to time served, which was 240 days, and three years of supervised release. She also had to pay a $500 fine and $3,100. 64.

. An illegal alien from Mexico who was arrested by Belfast police for assault and terrorizing in January was sentenced Monday to 80 days in prison and one year supervised release for being in the United States after being deported in 2004.

In January, Belfast police were called to the High Street apartment of Jorge Hernandez-Lopez, 26.

When they arrived, officers were met by three men, three women and one child, none of whom spoke conversational English, according to Belfast police.

After overcoming a language barrier, police were told that Hernandez-Lopez and his female companion got into an argument about where they were going to eat that evening, and he slapped her. It was then learned that he was in the country illegally, according to police.

. A Bucksport man was sentenced to 77 months in jail and three years of supervised release on Monday after lying on a firearm application about his criminal history.

In April 2006, Robert Harrison Patient, 29, tried to buy a .22-caliber rifle at the Wal-Mart in Brewer, and indicated on the application he had never been convicted of a felony.

But Patient had four felonies on his record, four in Massachusetts between June 1995 and October 2002, one of which he was on probation for at the time of the attempted firearm purchase, according to court documents.