2/10/25 – On 01/20/25, Officers from Shelby Township Police began receiving several reports of mail stolen from local businesses. Some of the mail that was stolen contained checks for large amounts of money. The case was quickly turned over to our Special Investigation Unit (SIU). SIU reached out to, and started working, with the U.S […]
2/7/25 – United States Attorney Susan Lehr announced that William Stewart, age 29, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced on February 6, 2025, in federal court in Lincoln, Nebraska, for possession of stolen mail and possession of Post Office master keys. United States District Judge Susan M. Bazis sentenced Stewart to 40 months’ imprisonment. There […]
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – 2/7/25 – A federal jury convicted a Hampton man today on charges of conspiracy, mail theft, and illegal receipt of a firearm by a person under indictment. According to court records and evidence presented at trial, on July 22, 2024, Jamal Ashton Shields, 33, drove to a postal collection box at […]
2/7/25 – United States Attorney Ronald C. Gathe, Jr. announced that U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles sentenced Lionel Haile, age 31, of St. Francisville, Louisiana, to 240 months in federal prison following his conviction for assaulting a U.S. Postal employee with a dangerous weapon and inflicting bodily injury. Haile must serve three years of […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – 2/7/25 – A U.S. Postal Service employee and a co-conspirator were sentenced to prison yesterday for a scheme involving stolen checks worth over $24 million, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. A third co-conspirator was previously sentenced for his role in the scheme. Nakedra Shannon, […]
CINCINNATI – 2/5/25 – Two local men pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to stealing USPS arrow keys during armed robberies of postal carriers. Antonio Toombs, 21, and Lorenzo Brandon, 22, participated in two separate armed robberies on the same day. Toombs and Brandon each pleaded guilty to two counts of stealing mail or property […]
SAN JOSE – 2/3/25 – A federal grand jury has indicted Robert Cordova, also known as Robert Cordona, with one count of robbery of a U.S. Postal Service (USPS) letter carrier and one count of assaulting a federal employee. Cordova was arrested and made his initial appearance in federal district court today. Cordova, 49, of […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio – 1/31/25 – A Columbus man was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 204 months in prison for four armed robberies of Postal carriers. Thierno S. Bah, 22, of Columbus, used firearms and robbed postal carriers of their U.S. Postal Service keys on four occasions between December 2022 and May 2023. He […]
Tampa, Florida – 1/28/25 – U.S. District Judge Charlene Honeywell has sentenced Jordan Murray (20, Tampa) to nine years and six months in federal prison for armed robbery of a postal mail carrier and brandishing a firearm in relation to that crime. Jordan Brown (21, Tampa) was sentenced to two years and six months in […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – 1/16/25 – A Springfield, Illinois, man, Larry French Jr., 23, was sentenced on January 14, 2025, to eighteen months in federal prison, to be followed by two years of supervised release, for assaulting a United States Postal Service employee. At the sentencing hearing before U.S. District Judge Colleen Lawless, the government presented […]