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Former Postal Employee Sentenced for Delaying and Stealing Contents of U.S. Mail

For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – RANDY BROWN, JR (“BROWN”), age 31, a resident of Gretna, Louisiana, was sentenced to twenty-one (21) months’ imprisonment by United States District Judge Sarah S. Vance, after previously pleading guilty to the four-count indictment charging him with unlawful delay of U.S. Mail matter by a postal employee, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1703(a) and theft of U.S. Mail matter by a postal employee, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1709.

According to court documents, between on or about July, 2022, through October 4, 2022, BROWN unlawfully secreted, detained, and delayed U.S. mail entrusted to him as a postal employee; and on September 26, 2022, September 27, 2022, and October 3, 2022, BROWN did knowingly embezzle, steal, abstract, and remove checks from U.S. mail entrusted to him as a postal employee.

In addition to his incarceration sentence, Judge Vance also sentenced BROWN to three (3) years of supervised release.  BROWN must additionally pay a $100 mandatory special assessment fee.

Acting U.S. Attorney Simpson praised the work of the United States Postal Service, Office of the Inspector General and the Gretna Police Department.  The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Troy L. Bell of the Violent Crimes Unit.

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Contact

Shane M. Jones

Public Information Officer

United States Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Louisiana

United States Department of Justice

Updated May 7, 2025

Topic
Public Corruption