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Investigative Press Release

Ex-USPS Worker Pleads Guilty to Scheme to Deliver Drugs through Mail

ATLANTA – Former mail carrier Robert Elliott Sheppard has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges for recruiting fellow mail carriers to deliver packages of controlled substances while he was on disability leave.

“Postal carriers occupy a position of trust in our communities and Sheppard violated that trust by exploiting his role as a mail carrier to traffic kilogram amounts of cocaine as well as marijuana,” said U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan. “Sheppard’s conduct is especially egregious because he recruited other postal carriers to participate in his criminal scheme once he was on disability leave. His conduct and greed potentially exposed countless innocent postal workers and the public to dangerous drugs and to the violence that these crimes frequently cause.”

According to U.S. Attorney Buchanan, the charges and other information presented in court: In 2014, Sheppard worked as a U.S Postal Service (USPS) mail carrier. In exchange for bribes, he used his position to deliver five-pound packages of drugs through the U.S. mails to Dexter Frazier, a local drug trafficker who sold cocaine and marijuana.

This case is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General, and the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office.