{"id":344088,"date":"2026-06-03T04:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T04:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/344088\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T04:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T04:50:07","slug":"san-jose-man-sentenced-in-beating-robbery-of-letter-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/344088\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose man sentenced in beating, robbery of letter carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN JOSE \u2013 A 51-year-old San Jose man has been sentenced to nearly 11 years in federal prison for brutally beating and robbing a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier<\/a> in 2024, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

Robert Cordova, also known as Robert Cardona, pleaded guilty in late March to one count of federal assault and one count of federal robbery, according to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

The incident happened near the intersection of Taylor and 13th streets on Nov. 22, 2024.<\/p>\n

In his plea agreement, Cordova admitted he climbed into a USPS mail truck with the intent to steal mail, prosecutors said, adding that a letter carrier interrupted the theft.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said Cordova punched the letter carrier in the face, knocking him to the ground, and then got on top of him and punched him several more times in the face and head.<\/p>\n

The letter carrier suffered a broken nose and a fractured orbital socket, prosecutors said. His injuries also required the placement of a permanent metal plate inside his face.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s sentence underscores our unwavering commitment to protecting federal employees who serve the public every day,\u201d U.S. Attorney Craig Missakian said in a statement. \u201cAnyone who attacks postal workers \u2013 or any public servant \u2013 will be held fully accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to 129 months behind bars, U.S. District Court Judge Beth Labson Freeman ordered Cordova to serve three years of supervised release when he gets out of prison.<\/p>\n

Cordova was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service to be taken to the Bureau of Prisons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2013 A 51-year-old San Jose man has been sentenced to nearly 11 years in federal prison…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2598,184,7,1312,723,100,2480,88,90,89,198,200,27933,48915],"class_list":["post-344088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-assault","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-news","tag-robbery","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-south-bay","tag-u-s-attorneys-office","tag-u-s-postal-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}