{"id":36518,"date":"2024-10-11T17:59:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T22:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=36518"},"modified":"2024-10-11T17:59:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T22:59:15","slug":"wisconsin-man-indicted-for-shotgun-assault-on-a-postal-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2024\/10\/11\/wisconsin-man-indicted-for-shotgun-assault-on-a-postal-carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Man Indicted for Shotgun Assault on a Postal Carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"

10\/11\/24 – Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on October 8, 2024, a federal grand jury issued an indictment alleging that Benjamin L. Joos (age: 43) of Tigerton, Wisconsin, assaulted a federal employee in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 111(a) and 111(b).<\/p>\n

According to the indictment, on or about September 24, 2024, Joos \u201cknowingly and by means and use of a dangerous weapon, namely a shotgun, did forcibly assault, oppose, impede, intimidate, and interfere\u201d with a female postal carrier while she was performing her official duties. If convicted of the offense, he faces up to 20 years\u2019 imprisonment and a maximum $250,000 fine.<\/p>\n

This case was investigated by the Shawano County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. It will be prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Daniel R. Humble.<\/p>\n

An indictment is only a charge and is not evidence of guilt.\u00a0 The defendant is presumed innocent and is entitled to a fair trial at which the government must prove his guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.<\/p>\n

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10\/11\/24 – Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on October 8, 2024, a federal grand jury issued an indictment alleging that Benjamin L. Joos (age: 43) of Tigerton, Wisconsin, assaulted a federal employee in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 111(a) and 111(b). According to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72,110,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36518","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\/36518","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=36518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36519,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36518\/revisions\/36519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}