Joshua S. Levy, U.S. Attorney | U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts
A Boston woman, Myesha Lewis, was sentenced to three years in federal prison for her involvement in armed robberies of United States Postal Service (USPS) letter carriers. The incidents occurred on November 29, 2022, in Mattapan and December 16, 2022, in Hyde Park. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Dennis F. Saylor IV also imposed a three-year supervised release following her imprisonment.
Lewis pleaded guilty in October 2024 to charges including robbery of persons with lawful custody of mail matter or property of the United States and assaulting officers. She was indicted by a federal grand jury alongside co-defendant Kenneth Demosthene in May 2023.
The USPS has experienced an increase in thefts involving arrow keys used to access blue collection boxes. Unauthorized possession of these keys is a federal offense. Data from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service shows a significant rise in such robberies from 2019 through 2022, with a further increase reported in 2023.
During the November incident, Lewis and Demosthene forcibly took an arrow key from a letter carrier using physical force that resulted in the carrier being pulled off steps when their chain broke. In December, they robbed another carrier at knifepoint after demanding the key and breaking its chain.
Demosthene received a similar sentence to Lewis: three years in prison followed by supervised release.
The announcement came from United States Attorney Leah B. Foley and Ketty Larco-Ward of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service’s Boston Field Office. The case received assistance from the U.S. Postal Service's Office of Inspector General and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Luke A. Goldworm.
