SAN JOSE – 6/15/26 – Richard Tillman was sentenced today to five years in federal prison for arson. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Davila handed down the sentence. Tillman, 45, was indicted by a federal grand jury on August 7, 2025. Tillman pleaded guilty to one count of Malicious Destruction of Government Property by Fire […]
GREENEVILLE, TN – On June 10, 2026, George Herman Ruth, 70, of Morristown, was sentenced to 132 months’ imprisonment by the Honorable Clifton Corker, United States District Judge, in the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville. Today’s sentence followed Ruth’s prior entry of a guilty plea to twenty-five separate counts of mail fraud in connection […]
SAVANNAH, Georgia: 6/10/26 – A federal judge has ordered two defendants to be confined in federal prison after conviction for mail theft, bank fraud and identity theft. The sentences were imposed by U.S. District Court Judge J. Randal Hall and announced by Margaret E. “Meg” Heap, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. Joshua […]
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN – 6/8/26 – U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan Timothy VerHey, announced that a federal jury convicted Cordairo Aqtavian Lambert, age 39 of Grand Rapids, Michigan, of possessing cocaine with the intent to distribute. The investigation into Lambert began in July 2024 after postal inspectors in Arizona seized and searched […]
Tallahassee, Florida –6/8/26 – Taija Avion Smith, 25, and Jaheed Anthony Williams, 24, both of Tallahassee, Florida, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to commit mail theft, theft of a mail key, bank fraud conspiracy, and multiple counts of aggravated identity theft. Williams also pleaded guilty to 14 counts of bank fraud. The plea […]
SAN JOSE – 6/2/26 – Robert Cordova, also known as Robert Cordona, was sentenced today to 129 months in federal prison for robbing and assaulting a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier. U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman handed down the sentence. Cordova, 51, of San Jose, was indicted by a federal grand jury on January […]
On May 4, 2026, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Rhonda Smith, former Secretary-Treasurer of American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Local 1676 (located in Marietta, Ga.), pleaded guilty to one count of failure to maintain union records, in violation of 29 U.S.C. 439(c). Smith was then sentenced to one […]
BOSTON – 5/29/26 – A former U.S. Postal Service mail carrier was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for stealing packages containing prescription medications from postal customers on his postal route. Michael Vernon, 53, of Waltham, Mass., was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Brian E. Murphy to time served (one day) to be […]
Tallahassee, Florida – 5/29/26 – Stacy Michelle Braxton, 39, of Marianna, Florida, was indicted by a federal grand jury charging her with delay or destruction of mail. John P. Heekin, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the charge today. Braxton appeared for her arraignment in federal court before United States Magistrate […]
PROVIDENCE – 5/27/26 – Four members of a large-scale drug trafficking conspiracy involving the kidnapping of a U.S. Postal Service (USPS) letter carrier at gunpoint, and kilogram quantities of cocaine shipped from Puerto Rico to Rhode Island, have been sentenced in federal court to lengthy federal prison terms. District Court Chief Judge John J. McConnell, […]