October 7, 2019 GRAND ISLAND, Neb. — A former United States Postal Service employee will spend several years in prison for an armed robbery of another USPS driver in Grand Island
United States Attorney Joe Kelly said Gary Fellows, 45, was sentenced Monday in federal court in Omaha to 25 years in prison.
In April, Fellows entered pleas of guilty to charges of Hobbs Act Robbery and Use of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence. After serving his sentence, Fellows will began a five-year term of supervised release.
Prosecutors said a postal employee was approached by a masked man brandishing a handgun at 9:30 p.m. on December 14, 2018, while at the United States Post Office Distribution Center in Grand Island.
The masked man forced the victim into the passenger seat of the victim’s tractor-trailer at gunpoint, covered the victim’s head, and bound his hands. Fellows then drove the tractor-trailer to a rest area off Interstate 80 where the men further restrained the victim and removed remittance bags from the trailer. They entered a pick-up truck and fled the scene. The loss to the United States Post Office from the robbery was $68,507.04. At the time of the robbery, Fellows was employed as a tractor-trailer operator for the United States Postal Service out of Omaha. Fellows has a prior federal court conviction for bank robbery.