Shawn M. Herron, Cocaine Trafficking, Massachusetts 2021

BOSTON – A former U.S. Postal employee was sentenced today in connection with stealing mail believed to contain controlled substances.

Shawn M. Herron, 47, of Whitman, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV to 18 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Herron was also ordered to pay forfeiture in the amount of $4,000.

Herron pleaded guilty on Oct. 22, 2021, to one count of conspiracy to possess cocaine with intent to distribute and one count of theft of mail by a postal employee.

Herron, who worked for the Postal Service from September 2005, tracked packages he suspected of containing narcotics and instead of dealing with them appropriately, opened them and stole the contents.

Over a period of about a year and a half, Herron stole at least 15 packages from the mail, including one that contained 271 grams of suspected cocaine. He sold the cocaine to an apparent drug dealer for $4,000, which he intended to use for personal expenses.

United States Attorney Rachael S. Rollins, Matthew M. Modafferi, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General, and Ketty Larco-Ward, Inspector in Charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, made the announcement.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Eugenia M. Carris and Charles Dell-Anno prosecuted the case.

Shawn M. Herron, a former U.S. Postal employee, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and three years of supervised release for his role in cocaine trafficking.

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