Co-Defendants Sentenced On Federal Drug Charges

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that announced that two defendants have been sentenced for their roles in a federal drug conspiracy.

Dylan Thomas Emmick, age 32, of Purcell, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 51 months in prison for one count of Drug Conspiracy.

On January 8, 2026, Kody James Lile, age 45, of Lindsay, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 51 months in prison for one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine.

Emmick and Lile each pleaded guilty to the charges on July 7, 2025, in federal district court.

According to investigators, on November 9, 2024, Lile and Emmick traveled together from Oklahoma City into the Eastern District of Oklahoma to distribute methamphetamine.  Following a traffic stop in Latimer County, law enforcement searched Emmick’s car and found plastic baggies, a digital pocket scale with white crystalline residue, and over 46 grams of pure methamphetamine, a Schedule II controlled substance.

The charges arose from an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics, and the Latimer County Sheriff’s Office.

The Honorable Ronald A. White, Senior U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, presided over the hearing. Lile and Emmick 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 Erin Cornell represented the United States at sentencing.