OAKLAND – 6/11/24 – Craig Curtis Freeman was sentenced to 24 months of imprisonment for breaking and entering a U.S. Postal Service mail truck and mail theft, announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey and U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) Inspector in Charge Rafael Nuñez. The sentence was handed down on May 29, 2024, by […]
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – 6/11/24 – A Chesapeake man was sentenced today to 12 years in prison for his role in a conspiracy to rob U.S. Postal Service (USPS) mail carriers at gunpoint for their “arrow keys,” including as a gunman in one of the armed robberies. According to court documents, O’Sirus Charles Landres Ford, […]
Sheriff Greg Countryman On June 5, 2024, the Muscogee County Sheriff’s Office Special Operations Unit, along with the United States Postal Inspectors, successfully located and apprehended Demetrice Sampson. Sampson was being sought for the armed robbery of United States Postal Employees. Sampson was taken into custody without incident and transported to the Russell County Jail, […]
PROVIDENCE, RI – 6/4/24 – A Providence man who previously admitted to his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy, which involved a plot to kidnap a U.S Postal Service (USPS) employee while members of the conspiracy searched for missing cocaine that had been shipped from Puerto Rico, was sentenced today to nearly six years in […]
6/3/24 – An investigation is underway after someone opened fire on a U.S. Postal Service truck in Birmingham midday Monday. The shooting is believed to have happened in the Inglenook community in the 4200 block of 40th Court North. Postal officials said the incident happened at 12:15 p.m. Shots were fired at all sides of […]
Defendant Engaged in Robbery, Mail Theft and Identity Theft Schemes 5/31/24 – Earlier today, a ten-count indictment was unsealed charging the defendant Alfonso Forney with robbery of a postal worker, a related firearms offense, mail theft related offenses, wire fraud, bank fraud, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. The defendant’s initial appearance is scheduled […]
MIAMI – 5/31/24 – On May 29, Charlie Holley, 43, of Florida City, Florida, was sentenced to 192 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Rodolfo Ruiz II, after having been convicted by a federal jury of forcibly assaulting a federal employee, brandishing and discharging a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime, possession of […]
Co-conspirator sentenced to 33 months in prison; another awaits sentencing PHILADELPHIA – 5/23/24 – United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Sam Wolo, 23, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Paul S. Diamond to 36 months for his role in a scheme to steal checks from the United […]
ST. LOUIS – 5/16/24 – U.S. District Judge John A. Ross on Wednesday sentenced a man who threatened a mail carrier when he hadn’t received a package containing marijuana to 10 years in prison. Marquis Melton, 31, pleaded guilty in January to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Melton admitted […]
5/15/24 – Three men pleaded guilty to stealing a U.S. Postal Service arrow key, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton. Jlynn Laneil Dunn, age 21, Daylin Darden, age 24, and D Colby Vashion Lewis, age 23, were charged via criminal complaint in February and indicted the following month. Each pleaded […]