Ardmore Resident Sentenced For Felony Assault

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Jeremy Kurt Lewis, Jr., age 26, of Ardmore, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 63 months in prison for assault with intent to commit a felony.  This sentence will run consecutively to a separate sentence of 108 months for felony assault and a firearm offense imposed in another case.

The charge arose from investigations by the Murray County Sheriff’s Office, the Sulphur Police Department, the Chickasaw Nation Lighthorse Police Department, the National Park Service Rangers, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

On October 12, 2022, Lewis pleaded guilty to one count of assault with intent to commit a felony.  According to investigators, on May 29, 2021, while in custody for an unrelated felony assault and federal firearm offense, Lewis assaulted a jail officer during a failed escape attempt.

Lewis subsequently pleaded guilty to the prior felony assault and federal firearm offense and has since been sentenced in that case.  The terms of imprisonment in the separate cases will be served consecutively.

The crime occurred in Murray County, within the boundaries of the Chickasaw Nation Reservation, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

The Honorable Bernard M. Jones, II, U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, sitting by assignment, presided over the hearings in Oklahoma City.  Lewis will remain in custody of the U.S. Marshal pending transportation to a designated United States Bureau of Prisons facility to serve a non-paroleable sentence of incarceration.

Assistant United States Attorney Kevin Gross represented the United States at the sentencing.