A United States Postal Service employee was sentenced to 15 months in prison on December 14, 2023 for mail theft in Charlotte, NC. The employee is identified as Demarkis Houston, 31. Follow Charlotte Alerts on Instagram.
Demarkis worked as a mail handling equipment operator at a USPS processing and distribution center in Charlotte. Between August and September 2022, Demarkis unlawfully opened and destroyed mail entrusted to him and removed firearms from the mail.
Specifically Demarkis stole a Glock 9mm firearm, which was intended to be delivered by a carrier of the postal service.
On October 10, 2022, law enforcement conducted a traffic stop on Demarkis’s vehicle for a license plate violation.
Over the course of the stop, law enforcement removed a Glock from Demarkis’s vehicle. Upon further investigation, law enforcement determined that the firearm recovered from the vehicle was one of the firearms reported stolen from a mailed shipment.
On August 24, 2023, Demarkis pleaded guilty to destruction of theft of mail by a postal employee.
