CHICAGO — 9/17/26 – A man has been sentenced to eleven and a half years in federal prison for robbing two U.S. Postal Service carriers and a food delivery driver in a Chicago suburb.

DEVAN FLAX violently robbed a postal carrier on Nov. 25, 2023, and another carrier on Nov. 28, 2023, both in Forest Park, Ill.  On Nov. 26, 2023, Flax robbed a food delivery driver who was working for a Berwyn, Ill. pizzeria.  Flax brandished a handgun in two of the robberies.

Flax, 23, of Chicago, pleaded guilty earlier this year to federal robbery and firearm charges.  On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey I. Cummings sentenced Flax to eleven and a half years in federal prison.

The sentence was announced by Andrew S. Boutros, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, and Nicholas Bucciarelli, Inspector-in-Charge of the Chicago Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.  Substantial assistance was provided by the Chicago Police Department; Forest Park, Ill. Police Department; and Lombard, Ill. Police Department.

“Defendant’s robbery spree occurred in public places and jeopardized the work of postal carriers,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily C.R. Vermylen argued in the government’s sentencing memorandum.  “Motivated only by his own greed, defendant showed a complete disregard for human life.”