Mail Carrier Trafficked Cocaine In Cleveland Heights

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OH — A former Cleveland Heights mail carrier has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for trafficking cocaine. Rayvonna Taylor, 28, worked as a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier and used her position to distribute about 20 parcels of cocaine over the course of a year.

Between August 2015 and May 2016, Taylor helped deliver the parcels of cocaine. She would be working certain routes when the narcotics were set to be delivered. She would provide addresses on her route that the parcels could be sent to, then divert those parcels to a drug dealer in exchange for money, court document says.

Taylor was ordered by a Grand Jury to turn over all profits she made from her cocaine deliveries. She was sentenced to more than two years in prison on Friday. (To stay up to date on local stories, subscribe to the Patch Cleveland Heights newsletter. As news breaks and the story develops, you will be the first to receive updates from Patch.)

The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service investigated Taylor and eventually brought charges against her in January 2017.

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