{"id":39854,"date":"2026-07-24T10:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=39854"},"modified":"2026-07-24T10:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:53:14","slug":"federal-jury-in-chicago-convicts-woman-of-assaulting-united-states-postal-carrier-after-two-day-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2026\/07\/24\/federal-jury-in-chicago-convicts-woman-of-assaulting-united-states-postal-carrier-after-two-day-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Jury in Chicago Convicts Woman of Assaulting United States Postal Carrier After Two-Day Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-align-justify\">CHICAGO \u20147\/21\/26 &#8211; A federal jury in Chicago has convicted a woman of assaulting a United States Postal Service mail carrier following a two-day trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">DIANE BRINKLEY assaulted the mail carrier on June 9, 2025, in Chicago.\u00a0 The mail carrier was delivering mail at a home near Brinkley\u2019s former residence when Brinkley approached and began yelling at her.\u00a0 Brinkley shoved the postal carrier, causing the mail carrier to fall onto the concrete steps of a home.\u00a0 When the mail carrier stood up, Brinkley struck her a second time, knocking the mail carrier down again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Brinkley, 56, of Chicago, was convicted of a federal assault charge.\u00a0The jury in U.S. District Court in Chicago returned its verdict on July 16, 2026.\u00a0 The conviction is punishable by up to a year in federal prison.\u00a0 U.S. Magistrate Judge Heather K. McShain set sentencing for November 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">The conviction was announced by Andrew S. Boutros, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, and Nicholas Bucciarelli, Inspector-in-Charge of the Chicago Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.\u00a0 The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Hayley Altabef and Eric Rigoli.<\/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>CHICAGO \u20147\/21\/26 &#8211; A federal jury in Chicago has convicted a woman of assaulting a United States Postal Service mail carrier following a two-day trial. DIANE BRINKLEY assaulted the mail carrier on June 9, 2025, in Chicago.\u00a0 The mail carrier was delivering mail at a home near Brinkley\u2019s former residence when Brinkley approached and began [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-postal-crime","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39854","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=39854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39855,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39854\/revisions\/39855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}