NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — A Portsmouth man was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in prison for unlawful possession of a machinegun, robbery of property and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Suspect in armed robbery of postal worker in VB arrested in Hampton
On July 11, 2024, a masked person approached a USPS mail carrier on his route in Virginia Beach, pulled out a firearm and demanded the mail carrier’s arrow key. The arrow key is a master key that can access many kinds of mail repositories, including blue collection boxes, outdoor parcel lockers and apartment mailbox panels.
The masked suspect then went inside a car in which Cameron Brown, 29, was waiting. The masked suspect and Brown then left the scene in the vehicle.
After identifying the vehicle, law enforcement found it on July 17, 2024. Officers attempted a traffic stop and instructed Brown to turn off the vehicle while it was parked in an ATM drive-thru lane. He then reversed out of the lane, hit the credit union building, sped through an unoccupied ATM lane and left with police in pursuit.
Brown tossed a handgun from the driver-side window onto a sidewalk during the pursuit. The handgun was later recovered. It wasequipped with a machinegun conversion device, which made it capable of fully automatic gunfire. The handgun had been reported stolen from Chesapeake…