Sixteen Georgia Postal Workers Sentenced for Accepting Bribes to Deliver Cocaine through the Mail

11/27/18 ATLANTA – The last defendant of a group of 16 U.S. Postal Service letter carriers and clerks from across the Atlanta area was sentenced to federal prison for accepting bribes to deliver packages of cocaine – two kilograms or more at a time – in a wide-reaching undercover operation.  The defendants were willing to […]

Sixteen Georgia Postal Workers charged with accepting bribes to deliver cocaine

8/30/2017 ATLANTA, GA– In three separate federal indictments unsealed on Tuesday August 29, 2017, 16 U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employees working in locations across the metro-Atlanta area have been charged with accepting bribes to deliver packages of kilogram-quantities of cocaine in a wide-reaching sting operation. “Postal employees are entrusted to perform a vital service as […]

Postal Employee charged with helping 8 others in scheme to turn USPS into drug delivery service

9 Charged In Manhattan Federal Court With Trafficking Kilograms Of Cocaine Through The U.S. Mail System Law Enforcement Has Seized Over 25 Kilograms of Cocaine July 26, 2016 –  Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal […]

Louisville letter carrier shot on route has history of drug convictions

According to court documents, the mail carrier told investigators that Marcus Bennett, who lives along his route, had approached him for help delivering drug packages. The mail carrier said Marcus Bennett asked him two weeks before the shooting about a package that he was missing, according to the affidavit. He said Marcus Bennett blamed him […]