FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE	CONTACT: Lauren Horwood
April 19, 2011	PHONE: (916) 554-2706
www.usdoj.gov/usao/cae	usacae.edcapress@usdoj.gov
Docket #: 10-mj-242-DAD

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that Shana D. Dorsey, 26, of Sacramento County, was sentenced today by United States Magistrate Judge Dale A. Drozd to twelve months in prison followed by one year of supervised release for assaulting a United States postal carrier and obstructing the delivery of the mail. Dorsey was remanded immediately into the custody of the United States Marshal.

Dorsey was convicted in January after a two-day jury trial for her role in the March 27, 2010 assault on a United States postal carrier and for obstructing and delaying the passage of mail. According to the court documents, Dorsey and her co-defendant in the case, Elexie Marie Jackson, were waiting at the Willow Glen Apartment complex in Natomas for an unemployment check to be delivered. Jackson was expecting the check to be delivered to her mother's mailbox. Jackson and Dorsey did not have access to the mailbox because Jackson's mother was out of town and had the only key. Jackson and Dorsey approached the postal carrier while he was making his deliveries, and demanded that he give them the mail. When he refused to give them the mail, as required by U.S. Postal Service rules, they assaulted him and stole the mail he was carrying. The jury found Dorsey guilty of assaulting a federal employee and obstructing the delivery of the mail. The co-defendant, Elexie Jackson, is scheduled to be sentenced in May.

This case is the product of an investigation by the United States Postal Inspection Service. Misdemeanor Federal Prosecutors Michael A. Wheable and Matthew P. De Moura prosecuted this case.

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