{"id":36844,"date":"2024-11-27T10:54:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T15:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=36844"},"modified":"2024-11-27T10:54:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T15:54:30","slug":"sacramento-man-indicted-for-multiple-armed-postal-robberies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2024\/11\/27\/sacramento-man-indicted-for-multiple-armed-postal-robberies\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Man Indicted for Multiple Armed Postal Robberies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 11\/26\/24 &#8211; A four-count indictment was unsealed today, charging William Carl Jackson, 36, of Sacramento, with two counts each of armed robbery of a postal carrier and possession of mail keys, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, Jackson robbed postal carriers on July 11 and 31, 2024. During in each robbery, he brandished a pistol at the victim and then ordered the victim to turn over his postal keys. After taking the victim\u2019s keys, he then fled from the scene on a bicycle.<\/p>\n<p>This case is the product of an investigation by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. Assistant U.S.\u00a0Attorney Elliot C. Wong is prosecuting the case.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted, Jackson faces a maximum statutory penalty of 25 years in prison for each robbery count and 10 years in prison for each count of possession of a mail key. Each count also carries a maximum statutory fine of $250,000. Any sentence, however, would be determined at the discretion of the court after consideration of any applicable statutory factors and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which take into account a number of variables. The charges are only allegations; the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.<\/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>SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 11\/26\/24 &#8211; A four-count indictment was unsealed today, charging William Carl Jackson, 36, of Sacramento, with two counts each of armed robbery of a postal carrier and possession of mail keys, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, Jackson robbed postal carriers on July 11 and 31, 2024. During [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72,110,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36844","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\/36844","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=36844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36845,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36844\/revisions\/36845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}