{"id":40219,"date":"2026-09-18T12:01:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=40219"},"modified":"2026-09-18T12:01:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:01:55","slug":"chicago-man-sentenced-to-11-5-years-for-robbing-two-postal-carriers-and-a-food-delivery-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2026\/09\/18\/chicago-man-sentenced-to-11-5-years-for-robbing-two-postal-carriers-and-a-food-delivery-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Man Sentenced to 11.5 Years for Robbing Two Postal Carriers and a Food Delivery Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-align-justify\">CHICAGO \u2014 9\/17\/26 &#8211; A man has been sentenced to eleven and a half years in federal prison for robbing two U.S. Postal Service carriers and a food delivery driver in a Chicago suburb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">DEVAN FLAX violently robbed a postal carrier on Nov. 25, 2023, and another carrier on Nov. 28, 2023, both in Forest Park, Ill.\u00a0 On Nov. 26, 2023, Flax robbed a food delivery driver who was working for a Berwyn, Ill. pizzeria.\u00a0 Flax brandished a handgun in two of the robberies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Flax, 23, of Chicago, pleaded guilty earlier this year to federal robbery and firearm charges.\u00a0 On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey I. Cummings sentenced Flax to eleven and a half years in federal prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">The sentence 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 Substantial assistance was provided by the Chicago Police Department; Forest Park, Ill. Police Department; and Lombard, Ill. Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">\u201cDefendant\u2019s robbery spree occurred in public places and jeopardized the work of postal carriers,\u201d\u00a0Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily C.R. Vermylen argued in the government\u2019s sentencing memorandum.\u00a0 \u201cMotivated only by his own greed, defendant showed a complete disregard for human life.\u201d<\/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 \u2014 9\/17\/26 &#8211; A man has been sentenced to eleven and a half years in federal prison for robbing two U.S. Postal Service carriers and a food delivery driver in a Chicago suburb. DEVAN FLAX violently robbed a postal carrier on Nov. 25, 2023, and another carrier on Nov. 28, 2023, both in Forest [&hellip;]<\/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-40219","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\/40219","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=40219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40220,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40219\/revisions\/40220"}],"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=40219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}