Former Muskogee City Employee Sentenced For Federal Drug Crimes

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that John Paul Cruz Rosado, age 45, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, was sentenced on April 10, 2025, to 135 months in prison for one count of Distribution of Cocaine, and 135 months in prison for one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute Cocaine.  The two prison terms will be served concurrently.

The charges arose from an investigation by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, with the assistance of the Zanesville, Ohio Police Department.

On July 24, 2024, Cruz Rosado, the former Director/Event Manager for the Muskogee Civic Center, pleaded guilty to distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine.  According to investigators, on November 29, 2023, Cruz Rosado sold approximately ten ounces of cocaine.  On December 6, 2023, during the execution of a search warrant at Cruz Rosado’s Muskogee residence, law enforcement seized over nine pounds of cocaine, along with scales, baggies, cash, firearms, and other evidence of drug trafficking.

“OBN is grateful to our partners with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for helping secure a significant sentence in this case,” said OBN Director Donnie Anderson.  “Cocaine distribution is on the rise across Oklahoma, leading to increased overdoses and deaths in recent years.  My agency is committed to stopping those who are profiting while putting Oklahoma lives at risk.”

“I commend the work of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics in dismantling Cruz Rosado’s cocaine distribution operations, and taking a drug dealer off the streets,” said United States Attorney Christopher J. Wilson.

The Honorable John F. Heil, III, U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, presided over the hearing.  Cruz Rosado 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.