{"id":21166,"date":"2017-10-03T18:01:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T23:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=21166"},"modified":"2017-10-03T18:01:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T23:01:01","slug":"u-s-postal-service-manager-sentenced-to-more-than-eight-years-for-directing-a-federal-corruption-and-drug-distribution-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/10\/03\/u-s-postal-service-manager-sentenced-to-more-than-eight-years-for-directing-a-federal-corruption-and-drug-distribution-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Postal Service Manager Sentenced to More Than Eight Years for Directing a Federal Corruption and Drug Distribution Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>10\/03\/17 &#8211; A former U.S. Postal Service (USPS) station manager was sentenced on Oct. 2, to 97 months in prison for his role directing a bribery and drug scheme in which USPS workers delivered hundreds of pounds of marijuana to individuals in the District of Columbia in exchange for cash bribes.\u00a0 Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department\u2019s Criminal Division made the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Deenvaughn Rowe, 48, of Odenton, Maryland, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan.\u00a0 In addition to the term of prison imposed, U.S. District Court Judge Chutkan ordered Rowe to serve four years of supervised release and to forfeit $64,000.\u00a0 During the sentencing Judge Chutkan told Rowe, who had immigrated to the United States from Jamaica, \u201cWhat you have done has betrayed all this country has given you.\u201d\u00a0 Last month, Judge Chutkan sentenced two of Rowe\u2019s co-conspirators, Kendra Brantley, 32, and Alicia Norman, 39, both of Washington, D.C., to 46 months and 18 months in prison respectively, for using their positions as letter carriers to deliver boxes of marijuana.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-19149\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Justice1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to the evidence presented at trial, Rowe, the then-acting manager of the River Terrace Carrier Annex, used his USPS computer to track packages containing marijuana mailed from the Western United States to the Lamond-Riggs Post Office in Washington, D.C.\u00a0 The packages were typically addressed to fictitious individuals or non-existent addresses.\u00a0 The evidence at trial revealed that once the packages arrived at Lamond-Riggs, Rowe coordinated the delivery of the packages with Lamond-Riggs Letter Carriers Brantley and Norman, among others, by cell phone and text message.\u00a0 Brantley and Norman then delivered the boxes of marijuana on the street to men in expensive cars in exchange for cash bribes.<\/p>\n<p>This case was investigated by the USPS Office of the Inspector General\u2019s Capital Metro Field Office and the Postal Inspection Service\u2019s Washington Division.\u00a0 Trial Attorneys Mark J. Cipolletti, Shamiso Maswoswe, Molly Gaston and Nicholas Connor of the Criminal Division\u2019s Public Integrity Section prosecuted the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10\/03\/17 &#8211; A former U.S. Postal Service (USPS) station manager was sentenced on Oct. 2, to 97 months in prison for his role directing a bribery and drug scheme in which USPS workers delivered hundreds of pounds of marijuana to individuals in the District of Columbia in exchange for cash bribes.\u00a0 Acting Assistant Attorney General [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-theftandfraud","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21167,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21166\/revisions\/21167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}