Times of San Diego – 3/4/24 – A U.S. Postal Service employee who stabbed a supervisor in the head at a Carmel Mountain Ranch mail facility has been convicted of assault on a federal employee.
Prosecutors say Edwin Cuadrado Jr. attacked the victim on Aug. 25 in the parking lot of a USPS mail processing and distribution facility on Rancho Carmel Drive.
According to the prosecution’s trial brief, the stabbing arose from an earlier altercation between Cuadrado and a USPS supervisor at a gas station.
Cuadrado had parked his USPS tractor trailer at the gas station and the supervisor told him that USPS employees were not allowed to do that, according to court documents. Cuadrado then threw something at the supervisor’s car and pushed him, prosecutors said.
That supervisor and two others confronted Cuadrado a short time later at the mail facility and planned to notify him that he was being placed on leave.
When Cuadrado arrived, he pushed the supervisor from the earlier altercation again, then pulled out a knife, according to prosecutors.
The three supervisors tried to flee, but Cuadrado stabbed one of them multiple times in the head. The victim was hospitalized and treated for a laceration. Read more
Original DOJ Charges Below:
SAN DIEGO – 9/1/23 – Edwin Cuadrado, Jr., a United States Postal Service (USPS) employee, was arrested and charged in a federal criminal complaint with stabbing a supervisor on August 25 at a mail facility in Carmel Mountain Ranch.
At a hearing today in federal court, U.S. Magistrate Judge William V. Gallo ordered Cuadrado held without bond after the government argued he is a flight risk and danger to the community. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for September 12 at 9:30 before Judge Gallo.
The criminal complaint alleges that Cuadrado used a knife to stab a supervisor in the back of the head.
According to the criminal complaint, Cuadrado first engaged in a verbal and physical altercation with one of his USPS supervisors at a nearby gas station late in the afternoon on August 25. Shortly thereafter, Cuadrado drove his USPS vehicle into the main employee parking lot of the USPS mail processing and distribution facility located at 11251 Rancho Carmel Drive. While in the parking lot of that facility, three different supervisory USPS employees attempted to speak with Cuadrado regarding the recent altercation. Cuadrado responded by brandishing a knife and stabbing one of the supervisors before leaving the scene. Responding paramedics treated the wound to the back of the supervisor’s head before that supervisor was taken to a hospital for further treatment.
Cuadrado remained at large until he was arrested by investigators on the morning of August 30.
