{"id":40144,"date":"2026-09-10T10:43:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=40144"},"modified":"2026-09-10T10:43:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:43:03","slug":"baltimore-man-sentenced-for-unlawful-possession-of-firearm-and-stolen-postal-service-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2026\/09\/10\/baltimore-man-sentenced-for-unlawful-possession-of-firearm-and-stolen-postal-service-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Man Sentenced for Unlawful Possession of Firearm and Stolen Postal Service Key"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baltimore, Maryland<\/strong> \u2013 9\/10\/26 – A Baltimore man is headed to federal prison for firearm and postal-service theft crimes.<\/p>\n

U.S. District Court Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Shykeem Fallin, 24, today, to four years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for possession of a firearm and ammunition by a prohibited person and possession of a stolen key adopted by the United States Postal Service.<\/p>\n

Kelly O. Hayes, U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, announced the sentence with Postal Inspector in Charge Damon E. Wood, U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) \u2013 Washington Division,\u00a0and Commissioner Richard Worley, Baltimore Police Department (BPD).<\/p>\n

According to court documents, on February 4, 2025, a BPD detective, monitoring a CitiWatch Camera, observed Fallin displaying characteristics of an armed person. The detective saw Fallin adjusting the front waistband of his pants while in a convenience store.<\/p>\n

Then Fallin exited the store and approached the driver\u2019s side of a white vehicle with an unknown male who was speaking to a female driver. During the conversation, the officer noticed Fallin repeatedly checking and adjusting an object in the front waistband of his pants. Then the detective saw Fallin walk to the front of the car and pull out a black handgun and hold it against his side.<\/p>\n

Fallin then put the firearm back in his waistband and adjusted his pants. After the white vehicle left, Fallin went to his vehicle and entered the driver\u2019s seat. Shortly after, BPD officers arrived on the scene to apprehend Fallin.<\/p>\n

After law enforcement arrested Fallin, officers asked him if he owned a permit for the firearm. But Fallin denied having the firearm. Then law enforcement searched the vehicle and uncovered a loaded firearm that contained 12 rounds of ammunition underneath the driver\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n

Additionally, law enforcement discovered a United States Postal Service (USPS) Arrow Key that fell from the driver\u2019s side visor onto the driver\u2019s seat. An Arrow Key is a government-issued master key that enables postal carriers to open cluster box units, blue collection boxes, and other USPS-secured mail infrastructure.\u00a0 Upon further investigation, law enforcement learned that the recovered Arrow Key was stolen from a postal carrier on February 3.<\/p>\n

U.S. Attorney Kelly O. Hayes commended the\u00a0USPIS and BPD for their work in the investigation, along with the\u00a0Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, for its valuable assistance. U.S. Attorney Hayes also thanked Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Rigney and Assistant U.S. Attorney James G. O\u2019Donohue III,\u00a0who prosecuted the federal case.<\/p>\n

For more information about the Maryland U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office, its priorities, and resources available to help the community, visit\u00a0justice.gov\/usao-md<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Baltimore, Maryland \u2013 9\/10\/26 – A Baltimore man is headed to federal prison for firearm and postal-service theft crimes. U.S. District Court Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Shykeem Fallin, 24, today, to four years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for possession of a firearm and ammunition by a prohibited person and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,72,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40144","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\/40144","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=40144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40145,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40144\/revisions\/40145"}],"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=40144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}