Ardmore Resident Sentenced For 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, was sentenced to twenty-eight months in prison for one count of Possession of Firearm and Ammunition by Prohibited Person.

The charge arose from an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

On March 18, 2025, Earley pleaded guilty to the charge.  According to investigators, on December 21, 2022, law enforcement executing a search warrant at Earley’s home discovered a 5.56X45mm Smith and Wesson semi-automatic rifle with a magazine loaded with 28 rounds of .223 REM caliber ammunition and 100 rounds of .223 REM caliber ammunition in Earley’s bedroom.  At the time of the search, Earley had notice that he was subject to a protection order from the Chickasaw Nation District Court prohibiting him from owning, possessing, buying, or attempting to obtain any gun or firearm.

The Honorable Ronald A. White, Chief U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, presided over the hearing.  Earley will remain in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service pending transportation to a designated United States Bureau of Prisons facility to serve a non-paroleable sentence of incarceration.

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