DUBLIN, Ohio — Three men are being federally charged after they worked together to rob a postal carrier in central Ohio in April.
On April 4, 21-year-old Mahad Jama and 18-year-old Da'mon May allegedly robbed a mail carrier who was sitting in a USPS vehicle on Sawmill Road in Dublin.
Court records say Cody Beasley, 22, is alleged to have helped them with the robbery.
Authorities said Jama approached the work vehicle, showed a gun that May provided him and demanded the carrier's service key. Beasley is accused of aiding and abetting them in the robbery.
Jama and May were arrested at their homes about a week after the robbery.
10TV has previously reported on how thieves use service keys to get inside USPS mailboxes and receptacles to steal checks. The checks are then washed or changed with a new name and new dollar amount, then cashed at a bank.
Beasly was previously in December 2019 for bank fraud, stealing mail and forging checks from August to November. When he was arrested, police found more than 200 stolen checks on him and 500 bank checks in various names at his apartment, along with thousands of dollars, a shotgun and a handgun.
Jama, May and Beasley are charged with robbery of mail, which is a federal crime punishable by up to 25 years in prison. They were also charged with using, carrying and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, which is punishable by up to seven years.