EAST ST. LOUIS — A 28-year-old Centralia man was sentenced Monday in federal court in East St. Louis to nearly eight years in prison on charges in two separate criminal cases.

Matthew S. “Mattie” Woods pleaded guilty to counts one, two, and three in the first indictment charging him with possession of stolen mail, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft.

Woods admitted in April to taking mail that included personal checks from the mailbox of a home on Nation Road in Marion County and then using those checks to defraud two area banks.

Woods is also indicted for allegedly using the checking account number of a person with the initials “KB” in the commission of a felony offense.

The 94-month sentence handed down in that case will run concurrently to the sentence handed down in the second federal case for possession of stolen firearms.

Woods is still facing local felony charges in both Clinton and Marion Counties; however, the federal court says its intent is that its sentence will run concurrently to any sentence that may be imposed in those pending cases.