Kelly Marie Myers, 56, was sentenced to 12 months in prison. According to court documents, the investigation began when U.S. Postal Inspection Service personnel in Charleston, West Virginia, intercepted a suspicious USPS Priority Mail parcel. Inspectors obtained a federal search warrant later that day and discovered approximately 890 grams of methamphetamine inside. The package had been mailed from Moreno Valley, California, and was addressed to “K. Myers” at a Flatwoods residence.

Investigators removed the methamphetamine and made the parcel available for pickup at the Flatwoods Post Office. Postal Inspectors and local law enforcement kept watch as the parcel was retrieved, ultimately leading to Myers.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Cogar prosecuted the case on behalf of the government.

The U.S. Postal Inspection Service investigated.

Chief U.S. District Judge Thomas S. Kleeh presided.

Blair appeared in federal court for her arraignment before United States Magistrate Judge Martin A. Fitzpatrick in Tallahassee, Florida. Jury trial is scheduled for September 8, 2026, before Chief District Court Judge Allen C. Winsor in Tallahassee, Florida.

Blair faces a maximum of five years’ imprisonment on each count.

This case was jointly investigated by the United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General, United States Postal Inspection Service, and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Assistant United States Attorney Emma Schwan is prosecuting the case.

An indictment is merely an allegation by a grand jury that a defendant has committed a violation of federal criminal law and is not evidence of guilt. All defendants are presumed innocent and entitled to a fair trial, during which it will be the government’s burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt at trial.

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Florida is one of 94 offices that serve as the nation’s principal litigators under the direction of the Attorney General. To access available public court documents online, please visit the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida website. For more information about the United States Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Florida, visit https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndfl.

USPS offers advice for employees to beat the heat

As much of the country experiences extreme heat, the Postal Service is reminding employees who work in hot conditions to take the following steps:

• Hydrate before, during and after work — even if you don’t feel thirsty.

• Wear light-colored, loose-fitting and breathable clothing.

• Avoid direct sunlight whenever possible. Apply sunscreen of at least SPF 30 and use shaded areas to stay cool.

The Postal Service’s Heat Illness Prevention Program is designed to ensure that employees are educated about heat-related illness and includes a heat safety awareness poster that is available for all facilities to download from the MyHR website.

The program is in place each year from April 1 through Oct. 31 and is triggered at any other time when weather reports issued by the National Weather Service for a particular work location indicate that the outdoor heat index temperatures are expected to exceed 80 degrees Fahrenheit during a workday or work shift.

Orlando, Florida – 8/4/26 – United States Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe announces the arrest of Yongbo Li, 36, Huashan Lu, 62, and Yuxiang Zhao, 60, pursuant to a criminal complaint for conspiracy to commit mail fraud. If convicted, the defendants face a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison.

According to the criminal complaint, Li, Lu, Zhao, and others engaged in an organized fraud scheme that targeted victims through telephone calls, emails, and Internet pop-up messages, falsely claiming the victims’ personal information and financial accounts were compromised and that immediate action was needed to resolve the fabricated issue. The immediate action was almost always the mailing of cashier’s checks, money orders, or cash to P.O. boxes in and around the Orlando area. According to the criminal complaint, twenty-eight victims, most of them elderly, have been identified.

A criminal complaint is merely a formal document supporting an arrest warrant that a defendant has committed one or more violations of federal criminal law, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless, and until, proven guilty.

This case was investigated by the United States Postal Inspection Service, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and the Orlando Police Department. It will be prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Patrick Flanigan.

On April 7, the Department of Justice announced the creation of the National Fraud Enforcement Division. The core mission of the Fraud Division is to zealously investigate and prosecute those who steal or fraudulently misuse taxpayer dollars. Department of Justice efforts to combat fraud support President Trump’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, a whole-of-government effort chaired by Vice President J.D. Vance to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse within Federal benefit programs.

U.S. Attorney Heekin said: “Our citizens must be able to rely upon the mail to be delivered quickly, securely, and efficiently, and this postal carrier’s reprehensible violation of the public trust placed in her to fulfill that duty deserves serious punishment. I applaud the excellent work of the USPS Inspector General to identify, investigate, and hold accountable this criminal behavior by a postal carrier.”

Court documents reveal that the defendant was a rural mail carrier for the Greenwood Post Office in Jackson County, Florida. In February 2026, law enforcement recovered 498 pieces of mail from the defendant’s mail route that were discarded in a burn barrel in Marianna, Florida. The defendant admitted to investigators that she attempted to discard and burn the mail from her route rather than delivering the mail to the designated recipients.

Braxton faces up to five years in prison.

Sentencing is scheduled for September 16, 2026, at 2:00 pm at the United States Courthouse in Tallahassee, Florida before United States District Judge Mark E. Walker.

The case was investigated by the United States Postal Service – Office of Inspector General. Assistant United States Attorney Emma Schwan is prosecuting the case.

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Florida is one of 94 offices that serve as the nation’s principal litigators under the direction of the Attorney General. To access available public court documents online, please visit the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida website. For more information about the United States Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Florida, visit https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndfl.

According to admissions made as part of his guilty plea, Jackson conspired with others to defraud federally insured financial institutions, including Neighbor’s Federal Credit Union (“NFCU”), Essential Federal Credit Union (“EFCU”), First Guarantee Bank and Trust (“FGB”), Navy Federal Credit Union (“Navy FCU”), and Regions Bank, among others. Jackson and his co-conspirators employed a variety of methods, including stealing or obtaining stolen mail to obtain personal and financial information of bank customers; altering or washing checks stolen from the mail; creating counterfeit checks using stolen bank account information; disseminating spam text messages designed to trick bank customers into revealing bank account information and login credentials; and using that confidential information to unlawfully access and transfer funds from victims’ accounts. Jackson also recruited other individuals, commonly known as “money mules,” either to open accounts or to use existing accounts to receive the fraud proceeds. Once the stolen funds were deposited into the accounts held by the money mules or other co-conspirators, these individuals withdrew the funds, keeping a portion for themselves and providing the majority to Jackson.

Additionally, Jackson stole mail, including personal and business checks totaling at least $20,378 that had been placed for collection in the blue boxes at the U.S. Postal Service’s office on Florida Street in Baton Rouge. These stolen checks and others, totaling over $270,000, were later located in a residence used by Jackson, along with the tools and supplies required for printing counterfeit checks.

In total, Jackson and his conspirators obtained or sought to obtain over $500,000 by negotiating, and attempting to negotiate, altered or counterfeit checks using checks and other financial data obtained from stolen U.S. mail.

Members of the conspiracy also engaged in “smishing,” short for “SMS phishing,” a cyber-attack technique whereby perpetrators use Short Message Service (“SMS”) or text messages purporting to be from reputable companies to induce victims to reveal personal information, such as usernames, passwords, or bank account numbers.  Jackson and his co-conspirators executed the smishing scheme in East Baton Rouge Parish, Iberville Parish, Livingston Parish, and others, defrauding financial institutions, including NFCU, EFCU, FGB, and their customers of over $300,000.

U.S. Attorney Kurt L. Wall praised the work of the U.S. Postal Service, East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office, Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office, and Iberville Parish Sheriff’s Office in investigating this matter. “This was a fantastic effort by a team of agencies that worked together along with Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul L. Pugliese. Marvel Jackson is a professional scammer and deserves every day of that sentence and more,” Wall said.

Employees are prohibited from gambling while on duty, in uniform or on USPS property. They also cannot use USPS computers or mobile phones to gamble at any time.

Prohibited gambling includes:

• Purchasing lottery tickets or pulling funds together to do so;

• Participating in sports betting pools for money, such as NCAA March Madness basketball tournament brackets;

• Making any type of bet or wager; and

• Using gambling devices for money, such as dice or playing cards.

Employees who engage in prohibited gambling can face disciplinary action — including removal from the Postal Service.

There are limited exceptions for Combined Federal Campaign activities and for facilities with Randolph-Sheppard Act vendors where state lotteries exist.

Employees with questions should email the USPS Office.

WASHINGTON — 8/3/26 – Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, today called on the Postal Service Board of Governors to remove Postmaster General David Steiner, accusing him of using the U.S. Postal Service in an effort to implement President Trump’s election mail executive order, which federal courts have twice held violates the Constitution. In a letter sent today, Krishnamoorthi also demanded answers about USPS’s apparent implementation of the order.

In the letter, Krishnamoorthi argues that Steiner has transformed USPS into a partisan instrument of voter suppression:

“Under your leadership, the United States Postal Service has been transformed into a partisan instrument of voter suppression. You have allowed this institution—trusted for more than two centuries to deliver mail without regard to party or politics—to be pressed into service implementing an Executive Order that federal courts have twice held violates the Constitution.”

President Trump’s March 31 executive order directed USPS to withhold delivery of mail ballots to voters whose eligibility could not be confirmed against a federally compiled voter list. Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia challenged the order as an unconstitutional usurpation of authority reserved to the states and Congress. A federal district court blocked key portions of the order, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld that injunction, and the Trump Administration has since asked the Supreme Court to allow the order to take effect before the November midterm elections.

Krishnamoorthi also argues that the Trump Administration’s representations to the Supreme Court are contradicted by USPS’s own apparent implementation efforts:

“The Administration’s own filing presents a troubling contradiction. In urging the Supreme Court to allow immediate implementation, the Department of Justice characterized the Executive Order as merely ‘general policy guidance’ and acknowledged that USPS has not finalized any implementing regulations. Yet USPS’s apparent implementation efforts over the past four months tell a different story.”

Krishnamoorthi argues that Steiner’s repeated refusal to answer Congress has left critical questions about USPS’s efforts to implement the executive order unanswered. The letter details how Steiner failed to respond to multiple requests for information, confirmed during Senate testimony his intention to carry out key aspects of the executive order despite ongoing litigation, declined to answer additional questions in writing, and refused to appear voluntarily before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Because of that pattern of obstruction, Krishnamoorthi concludes that Steiner has forfeited the trust required of his office:

“A Postmaster General who will not tell Congress whether his agency is complying with a federal court order, and who will not appear to answer for that silence, has already forfeited the trust the office requires. I am therefore calling on the Postal Service Board of Governors to remove you as Postmaster General, and I will urge my colleagues on the Committee to join that call.”

Krishnamoorthi requested responses by August 13, 2026, including answers to the following questions:

1. Describe, in detail and with supporting documentation, every implementation activity USPS has undertaken pursuant to the Executive Order to date, including any activity undertaken after the district court’s injunction and after the First Circuit’s July 25 ruling.
2. Identify all guidance, training materials, or instructions issued to postal employees, contractors, or mail processing facilities regarding the handling of election mail under the Executive Order.
3. State whether and how USPS has communicated with state or local election officials regarding implementation, including any communications regarding the voter eligibility lists referenced in the order.
4. Describe, specifically, what implementation-related work has continued, been paused, or been abandoned while litigation remains pending, and reconcile that description with the Department of Justice’s July 27 representation to the Supreme Court that the order is merely “general policy guidance” and that no regulations have been finalized.
5. State whether USPS has suspended, delayed, or modified any implementation activity because of the injunctions issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts or the First Circuit’s July 25 ruling, and if not, explain why not.

The full letter is available here.

DeShaune Stewart, who was found not guilty by reason of insanity for killing two Dublin, Ohio, postal supervisors in 2017, is seeking release from a federal psychiatric facility. The Bureau of Prisons proposed transferring him to a facility in South Carolina, but federal prosecutors are strongly opposing the move, and a court hearing is set for August 14, 2026.

On December 23, 2017 on or about 4:30 a.m., Stewart arrived naked at the Dublin post office and fatally shot his supervisor, Lance Herrera-Dempsey, before driving to the apartment complex of Dublin postmaster Ginger Ballard and beating her to death.

In September 2019, Stewart was found not guilty by reason of insanity after psychologists determined he suffered a severe manic and psychotic episode during the attacks.

He was committed to a federal psychiatric facility, and a prior 2023 attempt at securing his release was denied by the court.

The Bureau of Prisons proposed moving Stewart to a residential facility in Columbia, South Carolina, asserting he no longer poses a “substantial risk”.

Federal prosecutors are opposing the transfer, arguing the move is “tantamount to releasing him into the community”

Prosecutors highlighted that no Ohio facilities would accept responsibility for his treatment and raised concerns about placing an individual with a violent, incurable history in an isolated, out-of-state facility

Stewart was facing discipline and likely termination from his job at the post office, court records say, and he targeted the supervisors he believed were responsible.
Stewart’s attorney and federal prosecutors agreed Stewart had a manic and psychotic episode that led to his actions.

Post office employees who heard or saw the shooting called 911. Many of them were hiding from the gunman, who police said is 24-year-old Deshaune Stewart. Stewart is in custody.

“I just happened to turn and look and one of our carriers came in and he looked, he looked naked,” said a 911 caller, who identifies himself as a post office employee. “He shot our supervisor in the shoulder and as soon as I seen that, we all scattered. I got out of there.”

Zyeama Johnson, 31, of Jersey City, pleaded guilty on July 28, 2026, before U.S. district Judge Madeline Cox Arleo in Newark federal court to six counts of an indictment charging her with burglary of a post office.

According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:

Zyeama Johnson had previously been employed by the United States Postal Service (USPS) when she burglarized post offices six times in January and February 2023. During each burglary, Johnson entered after business hours with the intent of stealing mail from the post office.  For example, on January 10, 2023, Johnson broke into a post office in Jersey City and stole two USPS mail bins and a parcel bin.

Each of the burglary charges carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, or twice the value of the gain or loss, whichever is greater.

U.S. Attorney Frazer credited postal inspectors with the United States Postal Inspection Service, under the direction of Inspector in Charge Christopher Nielsen, Philadelphia Division, with the investigation.

The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Chana Y. Zuckier of the Bank Integrity, Money Laundering, and Recovery Unit in Newark.