{"id":37999,"date":"2025-06-10T10:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T15:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=37999"},"modified":"2025-06-10T10:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T15:47:11","slug":"california-man-sentenced-for-threatening-to-kill-postal-workers-in-u-s-virgin-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2025\/06\/10\/california-man-sentenced-for-threatening-to-kill-postal-workers-in-u-s-virgin-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"California man sentenced for threatening to kill postal workers in U.S. Virgin Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"

St. Thomas, USVI \u2013 6\/9\/25 – Acting U.S. Attorney Adam F. Sleeper announced today that Simon Peters, 42, of California, was sentenced on Friday, June 6, 2025, by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Robert A. Molloy to 8 months\u2019 imprisonment, followed by 30 months of supervised release, for threatening to kill employees of the United States Postal Service (USPS). Peters pleaded guilty to one count of making threats against public officials on February 18, 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cThreatening postal employees and other public officials will not be tolerated,\u201d said Acting U.S. Attorney Sleeper. \u201cPostal workers work tirelessly to serve our community and carry out their duties. We will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to hold accountable those who threaten violence against our dedicated public servants.\u201d
\n\u201cThe US Postal Inspection Service takes threats of violence to postal employees very seriously.\u201d said Acting Inspector in Charge Bladismir Rojo of the USPIS Miami Division. \u201cI\u2019d like to thank the FBI, DEA, HSI, USMS, CBP and VIPD who provided assistance and resources to aid us during this investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to court records, Peters called the Ottley Post Office on St. Thomas on January 27, 2024, and threatened to kill the carrier that services the Kirwan Terrace Housing Community for not delivering his packages, which contained marijuana. The threats included: \u201cMake sure the fat boy know, we\u2019re watching him and next time we\u2019re going to kill him behind the building\u201d; \u201cWe are definitely going to make a frigging example out here\u201d; and \u201cAny more packages from California go missing, you will see what happen to the co-workers dem \u2026 one by one.\u201d
\nOn January 29, 2024, Peters again called the Ottley Post Office and continued his threats. Peters stated he wanted to speak to the delivery driver for Kirwan Terrace. When asked why he wanted to speak with the driver, Peters stated, \u201cTo let the people know what\u2019s going on in the Virgin Islands. We got people driving around looking for him, and you gon hear him get gun shots in his [expletive] ass.\u201d He also stated, \u201cI\u2019ve been doing this for over 10 years now. I\u2019m in California dealing with the Virgin Islands.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a result of the threats, the USPS management did not send any letter carriers to the Kirwan Terrace Housing Community for two days to ensure their safety. This temporarily disrupted mail delivery to that community. The USPS also brought in agents from other jurisdictions to escort letter carriers to
\ndeliver the mail.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the USPS employed a private security company to provide additional security at the post offices.
\nThe USPS tracked the phone calls to California where Peters was located. Peters was arrested and brought to the Virgin Islands for prosecution.
\nThe investigation was conducted by the US Postal Inspection Service, with assistance from FBI, DEA, HSI, USMS, CBP and VIPD. Assistant U.S. Attorney Natasha L. Baker prosecuted the case on behalf of the United States Attorney\u2019s Office for the District of the Virgin Islands.<\/p>\n

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St. Thomas, USVI \u2013 6\/9\/25 – Acting U.S. Attorney Adam F. Sleeper announced today that Simon Peters, 42, of California, was sentenced on Friday, June 6, 2025, by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Robert A. Molloy to 8 months\u2019 imprisonment, followed by 30 months of supervised release, for threatening to kill employees of the United […]<\/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-37999","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\/37999","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=37999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38000,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37999\/revisions\/38000"}],"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=37999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}