{"id":345184,"date":"2026-06-03T18:47:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/345184\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T18:47:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:47:22","slug":"san-jose-man-convicted-in-brutal-attack-of-mail-carrier-receives-10-years-in-federal-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/345184\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose man convicted in brutal attack of mail carrier receives 10 years in federal prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A San Jose man was sentenced to over 10 years in federal prison on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sanfrancisco\/news\/san-jose-mail-carrier-postal-worker-assault-robbery-indictment\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2024 attack of a postal worker<\/a>, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office, Northern District of California announced that Robert Cordova, also known as Robert Condona, received a 129 month sentence. Cordova was indicted by a federal grand jury in January 2025, and he pleaded guilty to both counts of the indictment on March 31 of this year.  <\/p>\n<p>According to his plea agreement, Cordova admitted that he entered a United States Postal Service mail truck near Backesto Park in San Jose, intending to steal mail. When a USPS letter carrier approached Cordova to ask what he was doing, the 51-year-old punched the letter carrier in the face, knocking him to the ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cordova then climbed onto the letter carrier and punched him repeatedly in the face and head. Court documents showed the attack left the letter carrier with a broken nose, a fractured orbital socket, and a permanent metal plate placed inside his face due to his injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A press release sent out by the DOJ in February of last year also alleged that Cordova attempted to gouge the letter carrier&#8217;s eyes.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman found that Cordova qualified as a career offender under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today&#8217;s sentence reflects the seriousness of the crime committed in this case.\u00a0 Hardworking people come into your neighborhoods to deliver mail, they deserve respect and protection,&#8221; said Stephen M. Sherwood, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service San Francisco division inspector.<\/p>\n<p>Cordova has been placed in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service for transport to the Bureau of Prisons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the prison term, Freeman sentenced Cordova to three years of supervised release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Jose man was sentenced to over 10 years in federal prison on Tuesday after he pleaded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2598,88,90,89,45161],"class_list":["post-345184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-assault","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-united-states-postal-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345184","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=345184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}