LITTLE ROCK— 4/7/26 – Christopher Juan Sheard will spend the next 121 months in federal prison for the armed robbery of a postal employee. Jonathan D. Ross, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced the sentence, which was handed down today by United States District Judge Lee P. Rudofsky. A Superseding Information […]
SAN JOSE –3/31/26 – Robert Cordova, also known as Robert Cordona, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of Robbery of a United States Mail Carrier and one count of Assaulting a Federal Employee. Cordova, 49, of San Jose, was indicted by a federal grand jury on January 23, 2025, on charges of robbery […]
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – GILBERT DARBY (“DARBY”), age 48, a resident of New Orleans, was indicted on January 30, 2026, for assaulting a federal officer, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 111(a)(1) and (b); discharging a firearm during a crime of violence, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 924(c)(1)(A)(iii); […]
3/13/26 – United States Attorney Kurt L. Wall announced the conviction of Cody Gaspard, age 27, of Denham Springs, Louisiana. After a three-day trial before U.S. District Court Judge Brian A. Jackson, the jury unanimously convicted Gaspard of assaulting a postal employee. As the evidence at trial demonstrated, Gaspard approached a United States Postal Service […]
BOSTON – 2/13/26 – Two men were sentenced this week in federal court in Boston for fraudulently depositing checks stolen from the mail. Imanol Rios-Franco, 26, of Canton, was sentenced by Senior District Court Judge Patti B. Saris on Feb. 10, 2026, to 35 months in federal prison, followed by one year of supervised release. […]
CHICAGO — 2/12/26 – A federal judge has sentenced a man to more than four years in prison for robbing a United States Postal Service letter carrier in Chicago. The robbery occurred on March 31, 2020, in the 1900 block of North Albany Avenue in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood. DONTE HUGHES and another individual approached […]
OAKLAND — 2/9/26 – An Oakland man was sentenced today to five years in federal prison for robbing a postal carrier. U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín handed down the sentence. Joseph Michael McBee, 30, was charged by criminal complaint on Oct. 28, 2024, and by information on July 1, 2025, with one count of robbery […]
BUFFALO, N.Y. — 2/2/26 – U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Jacob D. Ortiz, 34, of Buffalo, NY, with assaulting a federal employee, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. Assistant U.S. Attorney Colleen M. McCarthy, who is handling the case, stated […]
BILLERICA – 1/23/26 – Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan, the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) and Billerica Chief of Police Roy Frost have announced that two juveniles have been arraigned in Lowell Juvenile Court for allegedly robbing a United States Postal Service mail carrier in Billerica using a bb gun that looked like a […]
Memphis, TN – 1/13/26 – On January 9, 2026, a federal jury delivered a guilty verdict in the case of Marshun Lewis, 25, who was charged with committing a series of armed robberies of United States postal carriers in August 2023 and October, November, and December of 2024 in the Western District of Tennessee. Lewis […]