{"id":40266,"date":"2026-09-25T09:33:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T14:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=40266"},"modified":"2026-09-25T09:33:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T14:33:38","slug":"alabama-letter-carrier-charged-with-destroying-campaign-mailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2026\/09\/25\/alabama-letter-carrier-charged-with-destroying-campaign-mailers\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Letter Carrier Charged with Destroying Campaign Mailers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BIRMINGHAM, Ala. \u2013 9\/24\/26 &#8211; A federal grand jury has indicted a U.S. Postal employee for destroying U.S. mail, announced U.S. Attorney Phillip W. Williams Jr.<\/p>\n<p>A one-count indictment filed in U.S. District Court charges Sekondi Watts, 43, Center Point, Alabama, with destruction of mail by a U.S. Postal employee.<\/p>\n<p>According to the indictment, in April 2026, Watts destroyed a batch of campaign mailers for a candidate running for state Senate.\u00a0 The incident occurred in Shelby County, Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis indictment reflects our commitment to protecting the integrity of our elections and the U.S. Mail, and we stand ready to prosecute anyone who interferes with fair and honest elections,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Williams. \u201cWe appreciate the work of our law enforcement partners in investigating this matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Election Day just around the corner, our office is on high alert and is committed to rooting out election integrity crimes in whatever form they take,\u201d said Assistant U.S. Attorney and Election Crimes Coordinator Brett A. Janich.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Postal Service-OIG investigated the case.\u00a0 Assistant U.S. Attorney Brett A. Janich is prosecuting the case.<\/p>\n<p>An indictment contains only charges.\u00a0 A defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.<\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIRMINGHAM, Ala. \u2013 9\/24\/26 &#8211; A federal grand jury has indicted a U.S. Postal employee for destroying U.S. mail, announced U.S. Attorney Phillip W. Williams Jr. A one-count indictment filed in U.S. District Court charges Sekondi Watts, 43, Center Point, Alabama, with destruction of mail by a U.S. Postal employee. According to the indictment, in [&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-40266","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\/40266","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=40266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40267,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40266\/revisions\/40267"}],"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=40266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}