{"id":34160,"date":"2023-08-08T09:15:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T14:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=34160"},"modified":"2023-08-08T09:15:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T14:15:16","slug":"additional-defendant-charged-in-case-involving-armed-robbery-of-ohio-mail-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2023\/08\/08\/additional-defendant-charged-in-case-involving-armed-robbery-of-ohio-mail-carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Additional defendant charged in case involving armed robbery of Ohio mail carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2013 8\/7\/23 &#8211; A third defendant has been arrested on charges relating to an April 2023 armed robbery of a mail carrier.<\/p>\n<p>Cody N. Beasley, also known as \u201cDrose,\u201d 22, of Columbus, was included in a superseding indictment returned in federal court on Aug. 3. Beasley remains in federal custody.<\/p>\n<p>Mahad S. Jama, 21, of Westerville, and Da\u2019mon D. May, 18, of Columbus, were charged in April 2023, 10 days after they allegedly robbed a mail carrier at gunpoint.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, on April 4 at 3:20pm, Jama and May robbed at gunpoint a USPS letter carrier who was sitting in his work vehicle on Sawmill Road in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>Jama allegedly approached the USPS vehicle, brandished a handgun that May provided him, and demanded the carrier\u2019s U.S. Postal Service key. Beasley is alleged to have aided and abetted them in that robbery.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants allegedly robbed the worker of an \u201carrow key\u201d that gives access to mail collection boxes. The U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office and partner law enforcement agencies continue to investigate a network of individuals involved in robbing or stealing U.S. Postal Service keys for the purpose of stealing checks from collection boxes.<\/p>\n<p>The three defendants are charged with robbery of mail, a federal crime punishable by up to 25 years in prison, and using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, which carries a penalty of at least seven years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth L. Parker, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio; and Lesley C. Allison, Inspector in Charge, U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), Pittsburgh Division; announced the charges. Assistant United States Attorneys Noah R. Litton and Elizabeth A. Geraghty are representing the United States in this case.<\/p>\n<p>A superseding indictment merely contains allegations, and defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/j495.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-33705\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/j495-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/j495-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/j495-30x30.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2013 8\/7\/23 &#8211; A third defendant has been arrested on charges relating to an April 2023 armed robbery of a mail carrier. Cody N. Beasley, also known as \u201cDrose,\u201d 22, of Columbus, was included in a superseding indictment returned in federal court on Aug. 3. Beasley remains in federal custody. Mahad S. Jama, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72,110,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-theftandfraud","category-under-siege","category-postal-crime","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34160","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=34160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34161,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34160\/revisions\/34161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}