LaTonya Evans, Postal Robbery, Georgia 2013

LaTonya Evans, a 44-year-old postal worker from Jackson, Georgia, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on conspiracy and armed robbery charges for her role in planning a postal robbery in Conley, Georgia, on December 20, 2013.

According to prosecutors, Evans helped to develop the scheme to rob a postal truck and worked with co-defendants Kendrick Watkins and Charles Jackson to carry out the plan. The indictment alleges that Evans met with Watkins and Jackson to plan the robbery of the postal truck driver.

On December 20, 2013, during a routine pick-up in Conley, Georgia, Jackson and Watkins approached the U.S. Postal employee who was driving the truck and demanded the keys to the postal truck. When the victim did not immediately comply, the men shot him in the torso, nearly taking his life.

The robbers then bound the victim’s feet and took his cell phone so that he could not run or call for help. Jackson and Watkins drove away with the stolen truck and all its contents and met with Evans afterwards to discuss the robbery.

The victim was forced to crawl several hundred feet to the nearest road where he flagged down a passerby for help.

Evans, Watkins, and Jackson have been charged with conspiracy and armed robbery. Members of the public are reminded that the indictment only contains charges, and the defendants are presumed innocent of the charges until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt at trial.

This case is being investigated by the United States Postal Inspection Service. Assistant United States Attorneys Mary Kruger and John Ghose are prosecuting this case.

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