California man gets just 8 months for threatening to kill postal employees

Simon Peters, 42, of California, was sentenced on Friday, June 6, 2025 to 8 months’ imprisonment, followed by 30 months of supervised release, for threatening to kill employees of the United States Postal Service (USPS), Acting U.S. Attorney Adam F. Sleeper said today.

Peters pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Robert A. Molloy to one count of making threats against public officials on February 18, 2025.

“Threatening postal employees and other public officials will not be tolerated,” Acting U.S. Attorney Sleeper said. “Postal workers work tirelessly to serve our community and carry out their duties. We will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to hold accountable those who threaten violence against our dedicated public servants.”

The US Postal Inspection Service takes threats of violence to postal employees very seriously.”

said Acting Inspector in Charge Bladismir Rojo of the USPIS Miami Division. “I’d like to thank the

FBI, DEA, HSI, USMS, CBP and VIPD who provided assistance and resources to aid us during this

investigation.”

According to court records, Peters called the Ottley Post Office on St. Thomas on January 27, 2024,

and threatened to kill the carrier that services the Kirwan Terrace Housing Community for not

delivering his packages, which contained marijuana. The threats included: “Make sure the fat boy

know, we’re watching him and next time we’re going to kill him behind the building”; “We are

definitely going to make a frigging example out here”; and “Any more packages from California go

missing, you will see what happen to the co-workers dem … one by one.”

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