Marvin Jones and Angela Wansley, postal workers at the Tinley Park Post Office, were convicted in a Chicago federal court in early March 2018 over a marijuana delivery ring.[1] Prosecutors said Jones, 51, a mail carrier, and Wansley, 44, a sales associate, made sure packages holding significant amounts of marijuana reached drug traffickers in Chicago’s south suburbs during a five-month period in 2016.[1]

Jones took misaddressed parcels from the mails and delivered them to Jayson Smith and Courtney Poindexter for cash.[1] Jones told Smith which customers had asked the post office to hold their mail and which post-office boxes were unused, and Smith had parcels sent to those addresses with fake California return addresses.[1] Investigators seized five parcels holding more than 4 pounds of marijuana, plus hash oil, THC-infused lemonade and marijuana edibles.[1]

Smith and Poindexter, both 38 and both of Country Club Hills, pleaded guilty and were waiting to be sentenced.[1] Jones and Wansley had not been sentenced and each faced up to 15 years in prison for bribery and up to five years on the conspiracy and obstruction charges.[1] The postal service’s inspector general began the case in May 2016 after an informant said Smith, 34, was paying a Tinley Park mail carrier to bring narcotics to his home.[1]