New Jersey man sentenced for stealing over 3,000 pieces of mail from Connecticut postal boxes

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July 20, 2025

HARTFORD, Conn. — A New Jersey man was sentenced Tuesday to three years of probation, including six months of home detention, for stealing thousands of pieces of mail from U.S. Postal Service collection boxes in New Haven and West Haven, federal authorities announced.

Ixavier Holman Jr., 34, of Secaucus, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sarala V. Nagala and ordered to perform 150 hours of community service. Holman pleaded guilty to mail theft on November 20, 2024.

According to court documents, between December 2022 and June 2023, Holman used stolen USPS collection box keys to access blue mailboxes at multiple locations, including 95 Fountain Street in New Haven and two West Haven sites: 589 Campbell Avenue and 844 Jones Hill Road.

Holman was arrested on June 12, 2023, after returning to one of the locations in West Haven and attempting to access a mailbox. At the time, he was in possession of two collection box keys. A search of his residence led to the recovery of more than 3,000 pieces of stolen mail, USPS mail bins, a credit card reader, and an embosser.

Federal investigators reported that the stolen mail included thousands of checks and money orders, sorted by bank, with a combined face value of more than $1.5 million.

The case was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut.

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