SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – A Sergeant Bluff man has pleaded not guilty to accusations that he stole mail while working for the U.S. Postal Service. Online court records say a trial is scheduled to begin April 3 for 42-year-old Kirk Baird in U.S. District Court in Sioux City. The charge carries a maximum prison sentence of five years without the possibility of parole.

Prosecutors say in a news release that from August through Oct. 20 last year, Baird took letters and other pieces of mail and removed from them cash, gift cards and other valuable items.