NORFOLK, Va. – 3/22/24 – Three men from the Hampton Roads area have been indicted and arrested on federal charges accusing them of planning and executing robberies of U.S. Postal Service mail carriers at gunpoint and related financial fraud. On March 19, Ricky Damion Christopher Jones, Jr., 20, of Virginia Beach was arrested on the […]
CLEVELAND – 3/21/24 – Rebecca C. Lutzko, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Cleveland returned a five-count indictment charging Devin Sims, Michael Williams, and Teontaey Thomas with aiding and abetting each other in Robbery of Mail or Property of the United States and Stealing […]
Winston McLeod of Orange, New Jersey and Lance Funderburk of Brooklyn, New York are also alleged to have staged 2 USPS break-ins PORTLAND, Maine: 3/20/24 – Two men from the New York City metro area were charged with burglarizing two Maine post offices and robbing, at knife point, two U.S. Postal Service (USPS) letter carriers. […]
PROVIDENCE, RI – 3/15/24 – A Providence man pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday to a charge of conspiracy to possess 500 grams or more of cocaine with the intent to distribute, at the same time admitting to a federal judge that conspiracy members kidnapped a U.S. Postal Service (USPS) worker at gunpoint while […]
CINCINNATI – 3/1/24 – Lamarion Gray, 19, of Cincinnati, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to armed robbery of a United States postal carrier. The agreement calls for a sentence of 80 to 100 months in prison. Gray is one of at least a dozen defendants charged in the Southern District of Ohio since […]
Montgomery, Alabama – 2/29/24 – On February 27, 2024, a federal judge sentenced 38-year-old Jermain Tyrone Holmes, from Dothan, Alabama, to 130 months in prison, announced Acting United States Attorney Jonathan S. Ross. The sentence followed his conviction for robbery of a postal worker. In addition, the judge ordered that Holmes serve five years of […]
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – 2/14/24 – A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City, Utah, returned an indictment today charging a Salt Lake City man with federal crimes after he allegedly carjacked a U.S. Postal Service truck from a postal employee and drove recklessly through Davis County. According to court documents, Wilber Castellanos Hernandez, […]
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – 2/14/24 – A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City, Utah, returned an indictment today charging a Salt Lake City man with federal crimes after he allegedly carjacked a U.S. Postal Service truck from a postal employee and drove recklessly through Davis County. According to court documents, Wilber Castellanos Hernandez, […]
ST. LOUIS – 2/7/24 – A man admitted breaking into a Franklin County, Missouri post office and twice stealing packages while masked. Scott Weatherby, 28, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in St. Louis to two counts of burglary of a post office. He admitted breaking into the U.S. Post Office in St. Albans, in […]
PROVIDENCE, RI – 2/1/24 – A federal judge on Wednesday imposed a nearly two-year term of incarceration on a Providence man who admitted to assaulting a U.S. Postal Service employee in November 2021, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha. Branley Ferreras-Severino, 23, who has been detained in state custody since his arrest on unrelated […]