Ardmore Resident Pleads Guilty To Illegally Possessing Firearm And Ammunition

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Jacob Layton Earley, age 22, of Ardmore, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to one count of Possession of Firearm and Ammunition by Prohibited Person.

The Indictment alleged that on December 21, 2022, Earley knowingly possessed a semi-automatic rifle and multiple rounds of ammunition despite being subject to, knowing of, and receiving actual notice of a protective order against him.  At the time, Earley was subject to a court order issued on July 12, 2021, in the District Court of the Chickasaw Nation, State of Oklahoma, prohibiting him from harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner, and explicitly prohibiting him from using, attempting to use, or threatening to use physical force that would reasonably be expected to cause bodily injury to that intimate partner.

The charge arose from an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

The Honorable Jason A. Robertson, U.S. Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, accepted the plea and ordered the completion of a presentence investigation report.  Earley will remain in the custody of the United States Marshals Service pending sentencing.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Lewis M. Reagan represented the United States.