Broken Arrow Resident Sentenced For Federal Firearm Charge

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Blaine Allen Villines, age 47, of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 30 months imprisonment for Possession of an Unregistered Firearm (Destructive Device).

The charges arose from an investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

On September 1, 2022, Villines pleaded guilty to one count of Possession of Unregistered Firearm (Destructive Device).  At the plea hearing, Villines admitted to possessing two homemade explosive devices on May 8, 2022.

The Honorable Ronald A. White, Chief Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, presided over the sentencing hearing.  Villines 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 T. Cameron McEwen represented the United States at the sentencing hearing.