{"id":29661,"date":"2020-11-18T10:55:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T15:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=29661"},"modified":"2020-11-18T10:55:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T15:55:21","slug":"texas-man-indicted-in-connection-with-armed-robbery-of-mail-carriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2020\/11\/18\/texas-man-indicted-in-connection-with-armed-robbery-of-mail-carriers\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas man indicted in connection with armed robbery of mail carriers"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOUSTON \u2013 11\/16\/20 – A 20-year-old Houstonian is set to appear in federal court on charges of aiding and abetting interference with commerce by robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.<\/p>\n

A federal grand jury returned the indictment against Xzavier Ivar Shephard Nov. 5. He is expected to make his initial appearance via video before U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew M. Edison at 2 p.m. today.<\/p>\n

Originally charged by criminal complaint, Shephard was believed to be involved in at least four armed robberies of postal letter carriers since June.<\/p>\n

The charges allege a young male would approach letter carriers while engaged in the performance of their duties. He would allegedly display a gun and\/or threaten force and make demands for certain items.<\/p>\n

The charges allege robbers would retreat to a black Buick automobile with paper plates and flee the scene. The vehicle was registered to Shephard, according to the charges.<\/p>\n

If convicted, Shephard faces up to 25 years in federal prison as well as a mandatory minimum of seven years that must be served consecutively to any other prison term imposed.<\/p>\n

U.S. Postal Inspection Service conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard D. Hanes is prosecuting the case.<\/p>\n

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HOUSTON \u2013 11\/16\/20 – A 20-year-old Houstonian is set to appear in federal court on charges of aiding and abetting interference with commerce by robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. A federal grand jury returned the indictment against Xzavier Ivar Shephard Nov. 5. He is expected to make his initial appearance via video before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29661","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\/29661","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=29661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29662,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29661\/revisions\/29662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}