{"id":7272,"date":"2014-03-28T07:42:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T12:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=7272"},"modified":"2014-03-28T07:42:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T12:42:02","slug":"postal-worker-charged-for-role-in-planning-conley-ga-postal-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/03\/28\/postal-worker-charged-for-role-in-planning-conley-ga-postal-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal Worker Charged For Role In Planning Conley, GA Postal Robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"

ATLANTA – LaTonya Evans has been indicted by a federal grand jury on conspiracy and armed robbery charges for her role in planning a postal robbery in Conley, Ga., on December 20, 2013\u2014a robbery that resulted in the near-fatal shooting of a postal truck driver by two other defendants charged with Evans in the same indictment. \"4-Postal-Fraud-Theft-small\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cEvans is charged with exploiting her inside knowledge of the Postal Service for personal profit,\u201d said United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates. \u201cThe conspiracy she is charged with participating in resulted in the near-death of a fellow postal worker whom Evans knew. The indictment charges that he was shot, bound, and left for dead by Evans\u2019 co-defendants. We will always aggressively prosecute anyone who commits this kind of horrendous act.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe U.S. Postal Inspection Service\u2019s mission and priority is the protection of postal employees,\u201d said Keith Fixel, Postal Inspector in Charge, Charlotte Division. \u201cActs of violence are crimes of unspeakable consequences which Postal Inspectors will investigate with rigorous tenacity. While the investigation included a postal employee, Evans\u2019 actions do not represent the vast majority of postal employees committed to doing their jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to United States Attorney Yates, the indictment, and other information presented in court: LaTonya Evans helped to develop the scheme to rob a postal truck, and worked with co-defendants Kendrick Watkins and Charles Jackson to carry out the plan. Evans met with Watkins and Jackson to plan the robbery of the postal truck driver. On December 20, 2013, during a routine pick-up in Conley, Ga., Jackson and Watkins approached the U.S. Postal employee who was driving the truck and demanded the keys to the postal truck. When the victim did not immediately comply, the men shot him in the torso, nearly taking his life. The robbers then bound the victim\u2019s feet and took his cell phone so that he could not run or call for help. Jackson and Watkins drove away with the stolen truck and all its contents and met with Evans afterwards to discuss the robbery. The victim was forced to crawl several hundred feet to the nearest road where he flagged down a passerby for help.<\/p>\n

LaTonya Evans, 44, of Jackson, Ga., has been charged along with Kendrick Watkins, 39, of Rex, Ga., and Charles Jackson, 55, of Griffin, Ga. Watkins and Jackson are accused of carrying out the armed robbery and shooting.<\/p>\n

Members of the public are reminded that the indictment only contains charges. The defendants are presumed innocent of the charges and it will be the government\u2019s burden to prove the defendant\u2019s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt at trial.<\/p>\n

This case is being investigated by the United States Postal Inspection Service.<\/p>\n

Assistant United States Attorneys Mary Kruger and John Ghose are prosecuting this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ATLANTA – LaTonya Evans has been indicted by a federal grand jury on conspiracy and armed robbery charges for her role in planning a postal robbery in Conley, Ga., on December 20, 2013\u2014a robbery that resulted in the near-fatal shooting of a postal truck driver by two other defendants charged with Evans in the same […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-theftandfraud","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7272","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=7272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7273,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7272\/revisions\/7273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}