drug trafficking

Oct 9th

Puerto Rico Postal Employees arrested for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine

October 8, 2019 SAN JUAN, P.R. –United States Magistrate Judge Silvia Carreño-Coll authorized a criminal complaint charging Edgardo C. Sánchez-Sosa, Guelvin Benítez-Carrasquillo, and Gellitza Ortiz-Martínez with drug trafficking, mail delay, and tampering with evidence, announced United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow. The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (USPS OIG), the U.S. Postal Inspection […]

Dec 1st

Federal Charges Announced Against 5 Postal Workers in Fayetteville for Drug Trafficking Conspiracy and Theft of Mail

11/29/18 RALEIGH, NC – Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces the unsealing of an Indictment charging KELVIN DONNELL JOHNSON, KHADIR ELIJAH BEAMON, TIMOTHY LYDELL JONES, CARVIS CHARLES MARABLE, and BRANDON DARNELL MCNEILL with conspiracy to distribute marijuana and theft of mail. According to the allegations in […]

Apr 4th

Drug Dealer Pleads Guilty to Bribing Buffalo NY Mail Carrier

Jamaican National Pleads Guilty To Drug Trafficking And Bribery 4/3/2018 BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Damion Christopher Alexander Brown, 42, a Jamaican National residing in Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty, before U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny, to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 100 kilograms or more of […]

Sep 29th

California Postal Employee Sentenced To 72 Months In Prison For Drug Trafficking And Money Laundering

9/29/2017 HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Ramona Long, age 57, a former U.S. Postal Service employee in Northern California, was sentenced on September 28, 2017, by United States District Court Judge Yvette Kane to 72 months’ imprisonment. Long previously entered pleas of guilty before Judge […]

Jun 27th

4 indicted for using postal service in multi-state drug trafficking

What better way to send a package than with the postal service?…Unless what you’re shipping is illegal. Federal prosecutors say Are Mitchell, DeAungelos Artis, Henry Wardlow and Andre Bordes trafficked at least 350 pounds of pot. Indictment papers show they used the postal service to send money to a supplier in San Francisco, California who […]

May 18th

‘Operation: Wait a Minute Mr. Postman’ concludes with letter carrier, others Indicted on Drug Charges

5/18/17 A seven-month long investigation in the Whitehaven and South Memphis area has resulted in the criminal indictments of 25 people, including a postal worker, for the distribution and sale of heroin, Fentanyl, cocaine, marijuana and Oxycodone pills, Memphis Police Director Mike Rallings said Thursday. Dubbed “Operation: Wait a Minute Mr. Postman,” the investigation by […]

Apr 28th

Former Missouri Letter Carrier gets prison for conspiracy to distribute PCP through the mail

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Kansas City, Mo., postal carrier was sentenced in federal court today for her role in a conspiracy to distribute multi-kilogram quantities of PCP through the mail. Carol Barfield, 65, of Kansas City, was sentenced by […]

Jan 21st

Former UPS Employee Pleads Guilty to Drug Trafficking Charges

1/19/17 BOSTON – A former United Parcel Service (UPS) employee pleaded guilty on Jan. 17, 2017, in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with his role in a cocaine trafficking organization that shipped cocaine, secreted in UPS packages, from Puerto Rico to Massachusetts. Jorge Carrasquillo-Ortiz, 41, of Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, pleaded guilty to […]

Nov 15th

Former Missouri letter carrier pleads guilty to role in drug trafficking conspiracy

Former Kansas City Postal Carrier Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute PCP Through the Mail 11/14/2016 KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Kansas City, Mo., postal carrier pleaded guilty in federal court today for her role in a conspiracy to distribute multi-kilogram […]

Jun 16th

Bronx postal worker charged with delivering cocaine on route for drug organization

6/16/2016 A two-count indictment was unsealed this week in the United States District Court in Brooklyn charging six defendants with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and/or money laundering.  Yesterday, a United States Postal Carrier assigned to the Highbridge Postal Station in the Bronx was arraigned before Magistrate Judge Viktor V. Pohorelsky at the federal courthouse in […]