{"id":25518,"date":"2019-01-30T10:04:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T15:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=25518"},"modified":"2019-01-30T10:05:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T15:05:06","slug":"indiana-duo-convicted-of-conspiring-to-rob-postal-employees-of-mail-and-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/01\/30\/indiana-duo-convicted-of-conspiring-to-rob-postal-employees-of-mail-and-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Duo Convicted Of Conspiring to Rob Postal Employees of Mail and Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

Merrillville Duo Convicted After A Four Day Jury Trial<\/h1>\n
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HAMMOND – 1\/29\/19 – James Caffey, age 28 and Tanisha Banks, age 38, of Merrillville, Indiana were both convicted on January 28, 2019 of conspiring to rob as well as aiding and abetting the robbery of United States Postal employees of mail and money that was in the custody and control of the U.S. Postal Service.\u00a0 Chief U.S. District Court Judge Theresa Springmann presided over the 4 day jury trial.<\/p>\n

According to evidence presented at trial, Tanisha Banks and James Caffey, conspired with a third person, Leeroy Beck to rob the Tolleston Station Post Office in Gary, Indiana on August 3, 2017.\u00a0 Tanisha Banks, a Postal Service employee with experience working at the Tolleston Station, provided the logistics for the robbery while her boyfriend, James Caffey, handled transportation to and from the robbery.\u00a0 Together Banks and Caffey recruited the gunman, Leeroy Beck, who would actually carry out the robbery. At trial evidence was presented establishing that Caffey provided Beck with a handgun to use during the robbery.\u00a0 On August 3, 2017, after holding two employees at gun point, Leeroy Beck stole money and mail from the Postal Service.\u00a0 The cash was divided amongst the conspirators.\u00a0 Banks and Caffey used their share from the robbery to pay bills including a car note on the gray Dodge Charger James Caffey used to drive the gunman to and from the robbery.\"\"<\/p>\n

The gunman, Leeroy Beck, entered into a guilty plea with the government prior to trial.<\/p>\n

This case was investigated by the United States Postal Inspection Service with assistance from the Gary Police Department.\u00a0 The case was prosecuted by Northern District of Indiana Assistant United States Attorneys Diane Berkowitz and Thomas McGrath.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Merrillville Duo Convicted After A Four Day Jury Trial For Conspiring To Rob And Aiding And Abetting The Robbery HAMMOND – 1\/29\/19 – James Caffey, age 28 and Tanisha Banks, age 38, of Merrillville, Indiana were both convicted on January 28, 2019 of conspiring to rob as well as aiding and abetting the robbery of […]<\/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-25518","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\/25518","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=25518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25521,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25518\/revisions\/25521"}],"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=25518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}