Jaia Cruz, 24 -- who ruthlessly killed USPS worker Ray Hodges at Joe's Deli Grocery in January -- was sentenced to 15 years behind bars.

The woman accused of fatally stabbing a postal worker at a Harlem deli pleaded guilty to first degree manslaughter Wednesday as part of a plea deal.

The mom of a postal worker stabbed to death in a Manhattan deli slammed prosecutors Wednesday for striking a deal to let her son's ruthless killer take a plea deal for just 15 years behind bars.

Jaia Cruz, 24, pleaded guilty to first degree manslaughter for the fatal January stabbing Ray Hodge, 36, in a dispute witnesses say started over who was next in line at a Harlem deli.

Jaia Cruz, 24, was arraigned in court in Manhattan Thursday. Cruz is charged with second-degree murder in the death of 36-year-old Ray Hodge, a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service.

Jaia Cruz, 24, indicted in stabbing murder of US mailman Ray Hodge III on his lunch break at a Manhattan deli earlier this month.

Jaia Cruz, 24, was indicted on a second-degree murder charge in the stabbing death of USPS postman Ray Hodges, 36, who prosecutors said confronted her about cutting him on line at the deli counter ...

The maniac who allegedly knifed a USPS worker to death during a squabble in a Harlem deli last week was caught on video brawling in Upper Manhattan last spring. Jaia Cruz is seen in the middle of ...

Eyewitness reports claim that Hodges and the alleged assailant, 24-year-old Jaia Cruz, argued over who was next in line—a dispute which tragically culminated in Hodges being stabbed multiple ...

Jaia Cruz, accused of stabbing USPS worker Ray Hodge to death inside a Harlem deli, was indicted by a grand jury Wednesday.

Ray ‘Ray Ray’ Hodges, 36, was waiting to order a sandwich at Joe’s Grocery on Lenox Ave. near W. 118th St. when he got into a quarrel with 24-year-old Jaia Cruz.