FELON SENTENCED TO MORE THAN A DECADE IN PRISON FOLLOWING BUCKHEAD SHOOTOUT AND ROBBERY OF MAIL CARRIER

ATLANTA, May 14 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Investigation Atlanta Field Office issued the following press release:

ATLANTA - Maximo Fitzhugh has been sentenced to 10 and a half years in federal prison for a pair of violent crimes, one of which resulted in a gun battle in the Buckhead district of Atlanta.

"After threatening to shoot up a women's clinic, Fitzhugh held a postal worker at gunpoint and endangered the lives of other citizens when he brazenly robbed a mail carrier and instigated a lunch-hour shootout in one of Atlanta's most active business districts," said U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg. "Thanks to cooperation between our office, federal agents, and our state and local partners, a dangerous, viole...