Tajmir Wyles, 32, of New Jersey, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Thomas Barber to three years in federal prison for the robbery of a postal mail carrier and for the receipt, possession, or concealment of stolen property of the United States. U.S. Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe made the announcement.
The sentence was ordered to run consecutively with a Dallas, Texas state sentence of eight years in prison for obstruction, possession of a controlled substance, and fraudulent possession of identification information belonging to 50 or more individuals. Wyles pleaded guilty in the federal case on December 4, 2025.
According to court documents, the incident occurred on May 15, 2023, in Tampa, Florida. Wyles robbed a postal letter carrier of his master keys while the carrier was delivering mail at a community mailbox inside the Whittier Center shopping center on E. Busch Boulevard. Following a physical altercation over the keys, Wyles fled the scene with them.
In July 2023, Wyles was arrested in Dallas, Texas. Authorities found him in possession of a binder containing approximately 120 checks with multiple different owners. Many of these checks were reported stolen from the Tampa Bay area, where the stolen postal keys were functional. Investigators also recovered the postal master keys taken during the May 2023 robbery.
