U.S. Mailman Da'Ron Lester Shot for Stealing a Drug Shipment Package out of the mail - Colored Brothers - Eric Bennett and Marcus Bennett - In Custody

U.S. Mailman Da'Ron Lester stated he was tired of being assigned to mail routes in black areas because they never leave a Christmas card & cash like the white neighborhoods do....

LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - The shooting of a U.S. postal worker on Dearborn Avenue was the result of a drug deal, according to an affidavit filed in federal court Monday.

Marcus Bennett, the brother of Eric Bennett, who previously was charged by the Commonwealth Attorney, faces federal charges of assault against a federal government worker and discharging a weapon in the commission of a violent offense. If convicted, he could face a maximum of 20 years in prison for the first crime and a minimum of 10 years to life for the second crime. The charges would run consecutively.

[RELATED READING: U.S. Postal Inspection Service affidavit]

The day after the Feb. 10 shooting, postal inspectors received a tip that a person named "MIZ" from Victory Park, later identified as Marcus Bennett, was supposed to receive a package containing drugs via U.S. Mail approximately two weeks earlier, but the mail carrier, Da'Ron Lester, kept the package, and that's why he was shot, the affidavit said.

In an interview with postal inspectors after being released from a hospital, Lester said Marcus Bennett confronted him about the missing package, and Lester told him he knew nothing about it. Lester said the conversation ended with Bennett telling him to "stay safe."

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