{"id":39369,"date":"2026-04-28T12:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=39369"},"modified":"2026-04-28T12:47:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:47:32","slug":"pensacola-mail-handler-federally-indicted-for-drug-and-postal-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2026\/04\/28\/pensacola-mail-handler-federally-indicted-for-drug-and-postal-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pensacola Mail Handler Federally Indicted for Drug and Postal Crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pensacola, Florida<\/strong> \u2013 4\/28\/26 &#8211; Divincent M. Madison, Jr., 25, of Pensacola, Florida, has been indicted in federal court for one count of delay or destruction of U.S. Mail, one count of theft of U.S. Mail by U.S. Postal employee, and one count of possession with intent to distribute marijuana. John P. Heekin, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida announced the charges.<\/p>\n<p>Madison, Jr. appeared for his arraignment in federal court before United States Magistrate Judge Hope T. Cannon in Pensacola, Florida. Jury trial is scheduled for May 18, 2026, at 8:30 am before District Court Judge T. Kent Wetherell, II.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted, Madison, Jr. faces up to 5 years imprisonment on each count.<\/p>\n<p>The case was investigated by the United States Postal Service \u2013 Office of Inspector General. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Christopher C. Patterson.<\/p>\n<p>An indictment is merely an allegation by a grand jury that a defendant has committed a violation of federal criminal law and is not evidence of guilt. All defendants are presumed innocent and entitled to a fair trial, during which it will be the government\u2019s burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt at trial.<\/p>\n<p>The United States Attorney\u2019s Office for the Northern District of Florida is one of 94 offices that serve as the nation\u2019s principal litigators under the direction of the Attorney General.\u00a0 To access public court documents online, please visit the\u00a0<a class=\"ext\" href=\"https:\/\/ecf.flnd.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/login.pl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-extlink=\"\">U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida<\/a>\u00a0website.\u00a0For more information about the United States Attorney\u2019s Office, Northern District of Florida, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-ndfl\">https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-ndfl<\/a>.<\/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>Pensacola, Florida \u2013 4\/28\/26 &#8211; Divincent M. Madison, Jr., 25, of Pensacola, Florida, has been indicted in federal court for one count of delay or destruction of U.S. Mail, one count of theft of U.S. Mail by U.S. Postal employee, and one count of possession with intent to distribute marijuana. John P. Heekin, United States [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-theftandfraud","category-postal-crime","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39369","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=39369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39371,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39369\/revisions\/39371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}