MD Man Indicted for Stabbing US Postal Service Letter Carrier

BALTIMORE, MD — A Baltimore man was indicted Wednesday after federal prosecutors said he used a knife to assault an on-duty U.S. Postal Service letter carrier.

Jamie Paul Taylor, 47, was charged with assaulting a federal employee in connection with the June 11 incident, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland announced.

According to the indictment, police responded to the 3100 block of Strickland Street in Baltimore after receiving a call about a stabbing. The victim and witnesses told authorities that Taylor accused the victim of not being a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier, announced that he was going inside his residence to get a knife, and then returned with a knife and attacked the victim, prosecutors said.

The victim suffered an injury to his finger and his elbow while he attempted to flee from the assault. According to prosecutors, Taylor subsequently threw the knife at the postal worker before the victim and witnesses subdued him.

According to the indictment, Taylor is accused of assaulting a USPS letter carrier with a deadly or dangerous weapon, inflicting bodily injury to the letter carrier.

If convicted, Taylor faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

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