California Resident Sentenced For Federal Drug Crime

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Eric Lamont Williams, age 52, of Los Angeles, California, was sentenced to 210 months in prison for one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine.

The charges arose from investigations by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and the Drug Enforcement Administration.

On September 26, 2022, Eric Lamont Williams pleaded guilty to possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute.  According to investigators, on April 5, 2022, Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers conducted a traffic stop on Interstate 40. During a search of the vehicle, a backpack with four vacuum-sealed bundles containing over 4 kilograms of pure methamphetamine was found concealed under the hood.

The Honorable Ronald A. White, Chief Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, presided over the hearings in Muskogee.  Williams 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 Ryan Bondura represented the United States.