{"id":9159,"date":"2014-11-22T10:52:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T15:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=9159"},"modified":"2014-11-22T10:52:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T15:52:19","slug":"georgia-letter-carrier-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison-for-plotting-robbery-of-fellow-postal-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/11\/22\/georgia-letter-carrier-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison-for-plotting-robbery-of-fellow-postal-worker\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Letter Carrier Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Plotting Robbery of Fellow Postal Worker"},"content":{"rendered":"

ATLANTA – LaTonya Evans, a former United Stated Postal Service employee, has been sentenced to federal prison for participating in a conspiracy that culminated in the robbery and shooting of a postal truck driver on December 20, 2013, in Conley, Ga.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy providing her co-defendants with inside information, Evans enabled a robbery that nearly killed her co-worker,\u201d said United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates.\u00a0 \u201cEvans used her knowledge of the Postal Service for personal gain and violated the trust of the public and her fellow postal workers.\u201d \"dept-of-justice2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe safety and security of Postal Service employees is core to the mission of the Postal Inspection Service. Postal Inspectors are committed to bringing to justice those who commit violent crimes against postal employees.\u201d said Thomas Noyes, Postal Inspector in Charge of the Charlotte Division.<\/p>\n

According to United States Attorney Yates, the indictment, and other information presented in court:\u00a0 LaTonya Evans helped develop a scheme, with co-defendants Kendrick Watkins and Charles Jackson, to rob a postal truck driver.\u00a0 During phones calls and face-to-face meetings, Evans provided Watkins and Jackson with non-public information that enabled them to commit the robbery.\u00a0 On December 20, 2013, during a routine pick-up in Conley, Ga., Jackson and Watkins approached the postal truck they had targeted and demanded keys from the driver.\u00a0 When the victim did not immediately comply, Jackson shot the victim through the torso, nearly taking his life.\u00a0 The robbers bound the victim\u2019s feet and took his cell phone so that he could not run or call for help.\u00a0 Jackson and Watkins drove away with the stolen truck, and all its contents, and met with Evans later that same evening to discuss the robbery.\u00a0 The victim struggled to reach the nearest road where he eventually flagged down a passerby for help, after waiting almost 45 minutes.<\/p>\n

LaTonya Evans, 44, of Jackson, Ga., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Thomas W. Thrash, Jr., to 15 years and eight months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.\u00a0 Evans was convicted on September 9, 2014, after pleading guilty to conspiring to interfere with commerce by robbery.<\/p>\n

Co-defendants Kendrick Watkins, 39, of Rex, Ga., and Charles Jackson, 55, of Griffin, Ga., were convicted on August 13, 2014, and August 5, 2014, respectively, after both men pleaded guilty to armed postal robbery and discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence.\u00a0 Watkins and Jackson will be sentenced on January 7, 2015.\u00a0 They both face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.<\/p>\n

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

Assistant United States Attorneys Mary Kruger, John Ghose and Angela Garland prosecuted this case.<\/p>\n

For further information please contact the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Public Affairs Office at USAGAN.PressEmails@usdoj.gov<\/a> or (404) 581-6016.\u00a0 The Internet address for the home page for the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Northern District of Georgia Atlanta Division is http:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao\/gan\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ATLANTA – LaTonya Evans, a former United Stated Postal Service employee, has been sentenced to federal prison for participating in a conspiracy that culminated in the robbery and shooting of a postal truck driver on December 20, 2013, in Conley, Ga. \u201cBy providing her co-defendants with inside information, Evans enabled a robbery that nearly killed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","category-postal-crime","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159","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=9159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9160,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159\/revisions\/9160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}