DETROIT –7/21/25 – Two men were sentenced today for armed robberies that targeted U.S. Postal Service (USPS) mail carriers, United States Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon, Jr. announced. Gorgon was joined in the announcement by Sean McStravick, Acting Inspector in Charge of the Postal Inspection Service’s Detroit Division. Sentenced were Michael Lamar Smith-Ellis, 31 of Detroit […]
DENVER – 7/18/25 – The United States Attorney for the District of Colorado announces that Marquis Taylor, age 29, was sentenced to 46 months in prison after pleading guilty to assault with intent to rob a U.S. mail carrier. According to the plea agreement, in September of 2023, Taylor and two other individuals committed a […]
PORTLAND, Ore.—7/17/25 – A Tigard, Oregon man was sentenced to federal prison today for shooting a United States Postal Service letter carrier. Kevin Eugene Irvine, 34, was sentenced to 205 months in federal prison and five years’ supervised release. According to court documents, on December 24, 2022, while driving a white van through a Milwaukie, […]
Baltimore, Maryland – 7/16/25 – A federal grand jury returned an indictment, charging Jamie Paul Taylor, 47, of Baltimore Maryland, with assaulting a federal employee. Taylor assaulted a United States Postal Service letter carrier who was engaged in performing official duties. Kelly O. Hayes, U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, announced the indictment with Postal […]
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – 7/2/25 – Wilber Castellanos Hernandez, 33, an undocumented Mexican citizen, was sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to carjacking a U.S. Postal Service Truck and threatening the U.S. Postal Service employee. In addition to his term of imprisonment, U.S. District Court Judge David Barlow sentenced Hernandez to […]
CHICAGO — 6/27/25 – A United States District Court judge sitting in Chicago has sentenced a man to nearly six years in federal prison for assaulting and robbing a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier in a Chicago suburb. MALIK WASHINGTON robbed the mail carrier on Oct. 23, 2023, in Harvey, Ill. The mail carrier was delivering […]
TOLEDO, Ohio – 6/13/25 – Three Lima, Ohio, men who robbed a federal worker while serving on official duty as a postal carrier have been sentenced to prison by U.S. District Court Judge James R. Knepp. According to the indictment, the robbery occurred on Nov. 30, 2023, while a United States Postal Service letter carrier was […]
6/12/25 – The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, and the Acting Inspector in Charge of the New York Division of the United States Postal Inspection Service, Edward Gallashaw, announced today the unsealing of a Superseding Indictment charging six defendants – MICHAEL EDWARDS, a/k/a “Only1Giela”; SHAKEEMO HILL, a/k/a “Keemo,” […]
6/13/25- William Carl Jackson, 36, of Sacramento, was sentenced today to five years and three months in prison for robbing a postal carrier while armed with a dangerous weapon, Acting U.S. Attorney Michele Beckwith announced. According to court documents, Jackson robbed two postal carriers in Sacramento, one on July 11, 2024, and a second on […]
St. Thomas, USVI – 6/9/25 – Acting U.S. Attorney Adam F. Sleeper announced today that Simon Peters, 42, of California, was sentenced on Friday, June 6, 2025, by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Robert A. Molloy to 8 months’ imprisonment, followed by 30 months of supervised release, for threatening to kill employees of the United […]