Defendant spent thousands of dollars in stolen proceeds at casinos BOSTON – 7/30/25 – The former Postmaster for the Seekonk Post Office pleaded guilty today to stealing over $19,000 through no-fee money orders. Bethany LeBlanc, 48, of Seekonk, pleaded guilty to one count of theft of government money. U.S. District Court Judge Leo T. Sorokin […]
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 […]
On June 5, 2025, in the Hardin Circuit Court, Ninth Judicial Circuit for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Robert Hendrickson, former President of American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Local 5546 (located in Fort Knox, Ky.), was charged in a one-count indictment for theft by unlawful taking with a value greater than $10,000, but less than $1,000,000, […]
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 […]
BUFFALO, N.Y. –7/15/25 – U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo announced today that Fortino Pilier, 28, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. to possession of a postal service key which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Assistant U.S. Attorney Franz M. Wright, who […]
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, […]
7/15/25 – David X. Sullivan, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that IXAVIER HOLMAN, JR., 34, of Secaucus, New Jersey, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sarala V. Nagala in Hartford to three years of probation, the first six months of which Holman must serve in home detention, for stealing mail […]
McALLEN, Texas – 7/9/25 – A 57-year-old Mission resident has pleaded guilty to mail fraud and diverting company funds for her own benefit, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei. Elizabeth Batten was the director of financing at McCreery Aviation in the Rio Grande Valley from 2019 to 2023. As part of her plea, she admitted […]
EVANSVILLE, IN – 7/2/25 – Michael Jerome Wright, 45, and Cortney Lashea Young, 36, of Princeton, Indiana, have been sentenced to 12 and 2 years in federal prison, respectively, for their roles in a mail theft scheme. Wright pleaded guilty to mail theft, unlawful possession of a mail key, access device fraud, aggravated identity theft, […]
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 […]