A former Massachusetts submit workplace supervisor who grew up in Quincy was sentenced to a 12 months and a half in jail for intercepting a “brick of cocaine” and different medication from the mail and promoting them himself.
“I’m disgraced at my choice to be coerced into doing this and really am sorry,” Shawn Herron, who was the supervisor of customer support on the Fall River Submit Workplace, hand wrote in a press release to the U.S. Postal Service Workplace of Inspector Normal in February 2020. “I’ve been attempting to get out of the Fall River Submit Workplace as a way to get out of this nonsense and to get a recent begin.”
Herron, 47, of Whitman, was sentenced Monday by Chief Decide F. Dennis Saylor IV in U.S. District Courtroom in Boston to 18 months in jail and three years of supervised launch and to forfeit $4,000. On Oct. 22, 2021, Herron pleaded responsible to at least one depend of conspiracy to own cocaine with intent to distribute and one depend of theft of mail by a postal worker.
In Herron’s handwritten assertion, he admitted to intercepting packages from Puerto Rico and the U.S. west coast states suspected of containing medication about 15 occasions over a 12 months and a half. He wrote that he did this as a result of he needed to assist his brother out of some dangerous debt.
Prosecutors referred to as the scheme considered one of “greed” in a sentencing memo. They stated he had texted that he “had massive plans for [the] cash” like renovating his “again room and new home windows and a tile flooring.”
Prosecutors say that Herron seized packages both by himself or through the use of his place to direct subordinates to take the packages out of circulation on his behalf. He had advised workers he was seizing the packages for postal inspectors to research however not truly alerting inspectors.
Herron would inform clients that their packages had been returned to sender, in accordance with court docket paperwork, however would actually “take the pilfered parcels to his government-provided workplace house, open them, and steal their contents in the event that they contained managed substances.”
“Herron not solely conspired to distribute harmful medication, however he abused his place with the U.S. Postal Service to do it,” prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memo.
Herron seized one bundle from Puerto Rico that he advised a supervisor he thought had a “brick of cocaine” in it and bought the 271 grams of the drug for $4,000 to an space drug supplier, in accordance with a postal inspector affidavit.
In one other case, Herron had seized packages from Oregon with a robust odor of marijuana and tried to promote what he thought was about 80 kilos of the stuff on three completely different occasions to no avail and solely stopped when his brother advised him it was authorized hemp and never marijuana.
Herron grew up in Quincy, in accordance with a letter submitted to the court docket by his spouse final week. He has three daughters, the youngest of which is 17 years outdated. His spouse wrote positively of him and stated he had taken a brand new commerce job in insulation.