Five Members Of Drug Trafficking Organization Plead Guilty To Federal Drug Crimes

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Ricky Edward Hall, 29, of Covington, Oklahoma, Christopher Adam Banschbach, 37, an inmate at the Davis Correctional Facility in Holdenville, Oklahoma, Brittany Marie Cagle, 34, of Wagoner, Oklahoma, Christina Gail Pool, 42, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, and Joshua Levi Kendrick, 41, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, all entered guilty pleas in relation to drug trafficking methamphetamine in Eastern Oklahoma.

Banschbach entered a guilty plea to one count of Drug Conspiracy on July 13, 2023.

Kendrick entered a guilty plea to one count of Drug Conspiracy and one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine on July 10, 2023.

Hall entered a guilty plea to one count of Drug Conspiracy and one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine on June 28, 2023.

Pool entered a guilty plea to one count of Drug Conspiracy and one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine on May 16, 2023.

Cagle entered a guilty plea to one count of Drug Conspiracy and one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine on May 4, 2023.

The indictment alleged that from March of 2022 until November of 2022, Hall, Banschbach, Cagle, Pool, and Kendrick actively participated in a drug trafficking organization partially comprised of members and affiliates of the Universal Aryan Brotherhood, a prison gang. The defendants conspired to distribute methamphetamine in the Eastern District of Oklahoma and elsewhere.  During the conspiracy, Banschbach was an inmate at the Davis Correctional Facility in Holdenville, Oklahoma.

The charges arose from an investigation by the Muskogee Police Department, the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Department, and the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics.

The Honorable Gerald L. Jackson, U.S. Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma in Muskogee, accepted the pleas and ordered the completion of presentence investigation reports.  Hall, Banschbach, Cagle, Pool, and Kendrick will remain in custody of the U.S. Marshal pending sentencing.

Assistant United States Attorney Zachary W. Parsons and Assistant United States Attorney Ryan E. Bondura represented the United States.