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 […]
NEWARK, N.J. – 1/8/26 – Three men were charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud connected to theft of mail from collection boxes and postal vehicles across Northern New Jersey, Senior Counsel Philip Lamparello announced today. Jeffrey Bennett, a/k/a “Bizz,” a/k/a “Riley Smith,” 31, of Irvington and Rahway, New Jersey, Aquil Hubbard, 31, of Middlesex […]
Tampa, Florida – 12/05/25 – United States Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe announces that Tajmir Wyles (New Jersey, 31) has pleaded guilty to robbery of a postal mail carrier and receipt, possession or concealment of stolen property of the United States. Wyles faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. According to court documents, […]
OKLAHOMA CITY –11/26/25 – KANTRELL DAWAN HENDERSON, 34, of Oklahoma City, has been sentenced to serve 18 months in federal prison for assault on a federal officer or employee, announced U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester. According to public record, on October 19, 2024, Oklahoma City Police Department (OCPD) officers responded to a metro neighborhood regarding an […]
Queens, NY – 10/06/25 – The United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) along with the New York Police Department (NYPD) recently conducted enforcement operations in areas of Flushing, Glendale, and Ridgewood that resulted in the arrest of 10 individuals. Arrests were made of two suspects responsible for a majority of recent mail theft activity from […]
9/23/25 – A Lucas County man has been sentenced to prison for robbing and threatening a U.S. postal carrier with violence while the carrier was on an official delivery route at an apartment complex. Damere Wilson, 21, of Toledo, was sentenced to 20 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Jack Zouhary after pleading guilty […]
CHICAGO — 9/23/25 – A federal judge has sentenced a man to more than seven years in prison for robbing a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier at gunpoint in Chicago. The robbery occurred on the afternoon of Nov. 10, 2023, in the 900 block of North Francisco Avenue in Chicago. RICHARD THOMPSON approached the carrier […]