9/23/26 – Our Office of Investigations routinely monitors Postal Service contracts for possible fraud using proprietary data analytics tools. After our special agents flagged a North Carolina’s suspicious invoicing, they subpoenaed the owner. During an interview, the owner’s story unraveled, revealing deliberate fraud: Our special agents presented evidence showing he submitted fake invoices with inflated […]
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – 9/22/26 – An indictment was unsealed today charging a former postman with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) with unlawful secretion, destruction, and delay of mail after he allegedly unlawfully threw away mail that he was entrusted to deliver – including approximately 300 mail-in ballots to registered voters in Utah. Damon […]
CHICAGO — 9/22/26 – A Chicago man has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for trafficking fentanyl and other drugs from Arizona to Illinois. In 2022 and 2023, ALONZO POWE arranged to receive numerous parcels of fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine from various locations in Arizona. The shipments were sent via U.S. Postal Service […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — 9/12/26 – Carrie Wallace, 48, of Fort Bragg, California, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to one year in prison for tampering with a consumer product and mail theft by a postal employee, U.S. Attorney Eric Grant announced. According to court documents, Wallace used her position as a […]
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 […]
Pensacola, Florida – 9/17/26 – Divincent M. Madison, Jr., 25, of Pensacola, Florida, pleaded guilty to one count of theft of mail by a postal employee, one count of delay or destruction of mail, and one count of possession with intent to distribute marijuana. The plea was announced by John P. Heekin, United States Attorney […]
LOS ANGELES – 9/16/26 – A San Gabriel Valley man pleaded guilty today to robbing two United States Postal Service (USPS) mail carriers, later using stolen keys to enter apartment complexes and steal mail in Baldwin Park, and assaulting federal officers who arrested him, injuring one of them. Ruben Baca Lopez, 34, a.k.a. “Monster” and […]
Tallahassee, Florida – 9/16/26 – Napeaches Shouetta Blair, 43, of Tallahassee, Florida, pleaded guilty in federal court to two counts of theft of mail by postal employee. The plea was announced by John P. Heekin, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida. U.S. Attorney Heekin said: “Our citizens should be able to trust […]
RICHMOND, Va. – 9/16/26 – Two Richmond men were sentenced for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and possession of stolen mail. According to court documents, from May 2023 through April 2024, Tremont Hancock, 25, and Olden Ellerbe III, 27, conspired with other individuals to steal U.S. mail, sometimes using stolen USPS “arrow” keys, which unlock […]
Tallahassee, Florida – 9/16/26 – Stacy Michelle Braxton, 39, of Marianna, Florida, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Mark E. Walker to 59 days of incarceration and two years of supervised release after previously pleading guilty to one count of delay or destruction of mail. The sentence was announced by John P. Heekin, United States […]