Bronx Man Sentenced To 82 Months For Slashing Of USPS Mail Carrier

 

United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jamie McDonald, announced today that JOHN GARCIA was sentenced to a total term of 82 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Margaret M. Garnett in connection with the July 16, 2025, assault of a U.S. Postal Service (“USPS”) mail carrier.  GARCIA was previously convicted in the Southern District of New York of five counts of Hobbs Act robbery on June 3, 2020.

“This Office will continue to protect federal employees and the communities they serve by ensuring that those who commit offenses such as those carried out by John Garcia face serious consequences,” said U.S. Attorney Jamie McDonald.  “The defendant’s violent conduct endangered a public servant performing his duties and demonstrated a profound disregard for the law. Today’s sentence holds him accountable for a brutal and unprovoked assault on a federal mail carrier.”

According to public court filings, on July 16, 2025, GARCIA approached on on-duty USPS mail carrier in the Bronx (the “Victim”) from behind and attacked him. GARCIA had no prior connection with the Victim.  Rather, GARCIA violently attacked a stranger, leaving him with a serious injuries, and then fled.  GARCIA struck the Victim’s head and right ear, causing deep lacerations.  The Victim was taken to the hospital, where he received stitches to treat his injuries, which included (i) an approximately three-inch laceration to the side of his head, behind his right ear (Figure 1), (ii) an approximately one-centimeter laceration to the top of his right ear (Figure 1), and (iii) two approximately three-inch lacerations to the top of his head (Figure 2).

At the time of the assault, GARCIA was serving a three-year term of federal supervised release in connection with a prior conviction in the Southern District of New York of five counts of Hobbs Act robbery, for which GARCIA was sentenced to 48 months in prison.

GARCIA was arrested on August 5, 2025, and has been detained since that date.

In addition to prison, GARCIA, 50, of the Bronx, New York, was sentenced to three years of supervised release.

Mr. McDonald praised the outstanding investigative work and diligence of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.