A 19-year-old Cincinnati man was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison on Wednesday for robbing a mail carrier with the U.S. Postal Service at gunpoint last year, according to the Southern District of Ohio U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Lamarion Gray, according to court documents, approached the female carrier delivering mail on foot on the afternoon of July 12, 2023, where he brandished a firearm, pointed it at the victims, and demanded that she turn over her keys.
Gray (pictured above) fled on foot after the mail carrier handed over her keys.
After the incident, law enforcement “canvassed the neighborhood, talked with neighbors, and found surveillance footage showing Gray going into his girlfriend’s residence,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Law enforcement executed a search warrant at Gray’s residence, where they recovered “large amounts of stolen mail, including many stolen checks.”
Gray pleaded guilty on March 1, 2024, to one count of robbery of U.S. property.
In addition to his prison sentence, Gray was also sentenced to five years of supervised release after he completes his time in prison and to pay $14,176 in restitution to the female victim.
U.S. Attorney Kenneth Parker said Gray’s case is “part of a series of mail thefts and bank frauds that have victimized the Greater Cincinnati area over the past few years.”
“Armed assault on a postal worker has a significant, negative impact on all letter carriers, and eventually on everyone in the community who relies on the U.S. Postal Service,” Parker added.
Gray is one of more than a dozen defendants that have been charged in the Southern District of Ohio since 2022 with crimes related to postal robberies, the U.S. Attorney’s Office notes.
Two weeks ago, for example, 20-year-old Anthony Williams from Columbus pleaded guilty in the Southern District Court to crimes related to armed robberies of U.S. postal carriers.
Williams – who admitted to brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, committing aggravated robbery of U.S. property, and conspiring to commit an offense against the United States – is expected to receive a prison sentence of seven to nine years for his guilty plea.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Ohio Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
