CHICAGO — Chicagoans have heard a lot about postal workers being robbed at gunpoint over the past couple of years. But it’s not often that we hear about people being sent to prison for those crimes.
That’ll change for you today as we report on the recent sentencing of Deandre Davis, a 23-year-old who has pleaded guilty to holding up a mail carrier on the North Side last year.
Davis was on parole for armed robbery when he allegedly pointed a gun at the postal worker and demanded her master keys in March 2022. Mail thieves use the stolen keys to steal mail, which goes on to fuel well-organized identity theft rings.
Surveillance video showed Davis get out of a Toyota Camry to rob the postal carrier in the 6400 block of North Hoyne around 2:40 p.m., prosecutors said. He allegedly demanded the 36-year-old man’s work keys, then fled in the vehicle.
Chicago police detectives found additional surveillance video of Davis getting out of the Camry in front of a Rogers Park apartment building after the robbery. A building manager and Chicago cops who’d had previous contact with Davis identified him in the footage.
CPD arrested Davis a couple of months after the robbery when he showed up for an appointment with his parole officer.
In a deal with prosecutors, Davis pleaded guilty to armed robbery in exchange for a six-year sentence from Judge Shelley Sutker-Dermer. He is expected to be paroled on April 30, 2026, after serving half of the sentence.
Court records show Davis received a six-year sentence for armed robbery in 2021, too. In that case, he was convicted of participating in a January 2020 armed robbery that ended with the victim being shot and killed when someone stepped out of an alley and started shooting at them, according to Chicago Police Department records. He was never accused of shooting the victim.
Prosecutors said he also had two juvenile adjudications, one for armed carjacking and the other for robbery and aggravated battery.
