| Postal Worker Who
Paid A Junkie $10 to Steal Mail
While Sold Drugs with Guns Gets
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by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Aug 7 – A man many times
before arrested was indicted
for using a stolen Arrow key
to steal mail out of a mail
box on 79th Street and Madison
Avenue in Manhattan on June
26, 2023.
On July
19, 2024 he was up for
sentencing before U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Valerie E. Caproni.
Inner City Press was there,
the only media - and only
person - in the courtroom
gallery.
His lawyer, with
her client's permission or at
least foreknowledge, called
the crime "pathetic." He had
been paid $10 to take mail out
of the box, and now was in the
MDC jail for it. He did not
want to go back.
Jump cut to
August 7, when the ex-postal
employee who paid Yancy the
$10 was up for sentencing.
Inner City Press went; thread:
Judge: The
guideline is 87 to 108 months.
AUSA: He stole
poor people's stimulus checks.
He dealt in Arrow keys all
over. Defense lawyer:
Judge, we tried a case against
each other in 1988 in EDNY. I
find you no nonsense
Defense:
Later I saw the memo about a
kilo for $17,500. You don't
hear much about that. His car
only had three grams of crack-
Judge: A low level drug dealer
perhaps aspiring to be more.
Defense:
Yes he stole people's
Christmas cards and rent
payments. But so did other
people who got downward
variances. Exodus program
staff: He was hopeless, he
took anger management.
Defendant:
Change is a process. I never
knew how serious this was.
Once you're in trouble, it's
hard to get out. I had money
stolen from my account, then I
got empathy. I was
shielded by my grandmother,
kinda caused this. I went to
work for a cleaning service.
Judge: Your
grandmother sent you to
Catholic school. You went to
college in Atlanta, then this.
You paid others small amounts
to take all the risk.
Judge: Now the
Postal Service says Don't use
the mail, it's not secure.
That's outrageous. I sentence
you to three years in prison,
five years supervised release.
The overall case
is US v. Yancey, et al.,
24-cr-344 (Caproni)
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