Murray County Resident Sentenced For Federal Drug Offense

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that William Parker Gray, age 34, of Sulphur, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 151 months in prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine.

The charges arose from an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Murray County Sheriff’s Department.

On December 12, 2022, Parker pleaded guilty to one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine.  According to investigators, on October 11, 2022, Murray County Sheriff’s Officers conducting a traffic stop discovered Gray in possession of over 300 grams of methamphetamine, firearms, and a large sum of U.S. currency.

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.  Parker will remain in the 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 Erin Cornell represented the United States.