Benjamin Gregory Shirley Assaulted Postal Employee Attempting to Obtain Fentanyl GRAND RAPIDS – 7/30/25 – U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan Timothy VerHey announced that Benjamin Gregory Shirley, age 41, of East Lansing, Michigan, was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for assaulting a postal employee. According to court records, Shirley arranged […]
Defendant spent thousands of dollars in stolen proceeds at casinos BOSTON – 7/30/25 – The former Postmaster for the Seekonk Post Office pleaded guilty today to stealing over $19,000 through no-fee money orders. Bethany LeBlanc, 48, of Seekonk, pleaded guilty to one count of theft of government money. U.S. District Court Judge Leo T. Sorokin […]
DETROIT –7/21/25 – Two men were sentenced today for armed robberies that targeted U.S. Postal Service (USPS) mail carriers, United States Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon, Jr. announced. Gorgon was joined in the announcement by Sean McStravick, Acting Inspector in Charge of the Postal Inspection Service’s Detroit Division. Sentenced were Michael Lamar Smith-Ellis, 31 of Detroit […]
On June 5, 2025, in the Hardin Circuit Court, Ninth Judicial Circuit for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Robert Hendrickson, former President of American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Local 5546 (located in Fort Knox, Ky.), was charged in a one-count indictment for theft by unlawful taking with a value greater than $10,000, but less than $1,000,000, […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. — 7/18/25 – Axel Gustavo Calderon-Rosado, 36, of Columbia, has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for trafficking cocaine. Evidence presented in court revealed that in 2021, the Richland County Sheriff’s Department and U.S. Postal Inspection Service began investigating Calderon-Rosado for his involvement in a drug trafficking operation that used the […]
DENVER – 7/18/25 – The United States Attorney for the District of Colorado announces that Marquis Taylor, age 29, was sentenced to 46 months in prison after pleading guilty to assault with intent to rob a U.S. mail carrier. According to the plea agreement, in September of 2023, Taylor and two other individuals committed a […]
BUFFALO, N.Y. –7/15/25 – U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo announced today that Fortino Pilier, 28, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. to possession of a postal service key which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Assistant U.S. Attorney Franz M. Wright, who […]
PORTLAND, Ore.—7/17/25 – A Tigard, Oregon man was sentenced to federal prison today for shooting a United States Postal Service letter carrier. Kevin Eugene Irvine, 34, was sentenced to 205 months in federal prison and five years’ supervised release. According to court documents, on December 24, 2022, while driving a white van through a Milwaukie, […]
Baltimore, Maryland – 7/16/25 – A federal grand jury returned an indictment, charging Jamie Paul Taylor, 47, of Baltimore Maryland, with assaulting a federal employee. Taylor assaulted a United States Postal Service letter carrier who was engaged in performing official duties. Kelly O. Hayes, U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, announced the indictment with Postal […]
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – 7/15/25 – A Falls Church woman pled guilty today to causing damage to property of the United States. According to court documents, on Jan. 16, mail carrier Lolita Brickhouse, 31, had concluded her work shift and began looking for her cellphone. Brickhouse began accusing other USPS employees and supervisors of stealing her […]