A Tennessee man has been sentenced to 4 years in federal prison for assaulting 2 United States Postal Service employees with the intent to rob them in North Little Rock.
George Elliot Gibson III, 28, of Bartlett, Tennessee, received a 48-month federal prison sentence from United States District Judge D. P. Marshall Jr.
Gibson was also sentenced to serve 2 years of supervised release following his prison term. There is no parole in the federal prison system.
A federal grand jury indicted Gibson on September 11, 2024, in a 7-count indictment.
The charges included 2 counts of assaulting a United States Postal employee, attempted robbery of United States property, assaulting and impeding a United States Postal employee and unlawful possession of a postal key.
Gibson pleaded guilty on March 10, 2026, to 2 counts of assault with the intent to rob a United States Postal employee.
Investigators said the incidents happened on June 11, 2022, in North Little Rock.
Gibson reportedly pulled alongside a mail carrier who was sitting in a postal vehicle while delivering mail. Gibson demanded the carrier’s drop-box key, but the carrier refused and drove away.
Gibson encountered the same carrier on another route later that day and again demanded the key. This time, Gibson displayed what appeared to be a firearm.
Later that day, Gibson approached a different mail carrier who was delivering mail at a North Little Rock apartment complex.
Investigators said Gibson was holding a black rifle in his right hand and demanded that the carrier surrender the postal key.
The carrier initially refused but eventually gave Gibson the key.
North Little Rock Police officers conducted a traffic stop following the robbery and arrested Gibson.
Officers found an air rifle resembling an AR-15 on the vehicle’s floorboard. Investigators said the air rifle was used during the postal-key robbery.
Gibson later admitted to possessing what appeared to be a firearm during the attempted robbery of the first carrier and the robbery of the second carrier.
The United States Postal Inspection Service investigated the case with assistance from the North Little Rock Police Department.
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas prosecuted the case.
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