Sacramento man sentenced to 5 years in prison for robbing postal workers last summer
A Sacramento man who robbed two postal carriers in July was sentenced Friday to five years and three months in prison.
William Carl Jackson, 36, had pleaded guilty in March to one count of “robbery of mail matter.” In two incidents in the capital region, Jackson brandished a fake pistol at U.S. Postal Service workers and demanded their keys to mailboxes, he admitted in the plea agreement. After each robbery, Jackson rode away on a bicycle; after the first, he later tried to sell the stolen keys on the messaging app Telegram.
Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies arrested Jackson in November in Arden Arcade after finding him in a car with counterfeit $2, $5, $10, $20 and $100 bills, as well as a fake pistol, federal prosecutors said. The arrest followed an investigation by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
As part of the plea deal, prosecutors dropped three other counts included in the initial indictment in November.
The first episode took place at a “community mailbox,” according to the plea agreement’s factual exhibit. Jackson attempted to grab postal keys from the keyring on a mail carrier’s belt and refused to let go when the carrier requested he do so.
The agreement says Jackson coerced the postal worker to hand over the keys by saying, “Give them to me and I won’t hurt you.”
In Friday’s sentencing hearing, Judge Dena Coggins recommended that Jackson be sent to a federal prison in California, according to online court records.
This story was originally published June 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM.
