SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – 8/19/26 – A Springfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court for assaulting a U.S. Postal Service worker. Courtney J. Ellis, 45, was sentenced to seven years, followed by three years supervised release for assaulting a postal worker while they were performing their official duties. Ellis pleaded guilty to the assault earlier […]
Gainesville, Florida – 8/17/26 – Antrell Jermaine Hillard, 33, of Live Oak, Florida, was sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment for conspiracy to steal postal keys, theft of postal keys, and postal robbery/assault. The sentence was announced by John P. Heekin, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida. U.S. Attorney Heekin said: “This serial, […]
Greenbelt, Maryland – 8/13/26 – A Washington, DC man is headed to federal prison for nearly two decades for robbing several United States Postal Service (USPS) mail carriers at gunpoint. U.S. District Judge Lydia K. Griggsby sentenced DeAngelo Lewis, 30, to 17 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, after a federal […]
NEWARK, N.J. – 8/12/26 – Silvia Vasquez Rivera, 29, of Queens, New York, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit a pattern of racketeering activity that included attempted murder, kidnapping, robbery of United States Postal Service (USPS) mail carriers, and wire fraud in furtherance of a scheme to steal mail, U.S. Attorney Robert Frazer announced. According […]
RICHMOND, Va. – A Maryland man was sentenced to a year and 10 months in prison for mail theft and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. According to court documents, on Jan. 22, 2023, Jose Arnulfo Reyes, 27, of Oxon Hill, and another individual drove Reyes’ girlfriend’s car to the Fairfax Station Post […]
ROCKFORD — 7/13/26 – A man has been sentenced to more than six and a half years in federal prison for robbing a United States Post Office in Rockford last year. On May 27, 2025, ANTHONY JOHNSON walked approximately one block from his residence in Rockford to the Post Office, where he reached for a firearm […]
Richmond, VA – 7/9/26 – A U.S. Postal Inspection Service investigation into the July 7, 2023, armed robbery of a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier resulted in the guilty pleas of Deangelo Harris, 23, of Chesapeake, VA, and Demarih Lockhart, 22, of Virginia Beach, VA. According to the investigation, Harris drove Lockhart to Limerick Drive […]
WASHINGTON — 6/22/26 – Ibrahim De La Cruz, 26, of the District, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in connection with the armed robbery of a U.S. Postal Service maintenance worker from whom he took postal master keys that he used to steal high volumes of mail from luxury apartment buildings across the District, […]
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – 6/17/26 – A Portsmouth man was sentenced today to 14 years in prison for unlawful possession of a machinegun, robbery of property, and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. According to court documents, on July 11, 2024, a masked individual approached a U.S. Postal Service (USPS) mail carrier on […]
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 […]