Park Hill Resident Sentenced For Felony Drug Crime

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Jack Dewayne Neugin, a/k/a Jackie Dewayne Neugin, age 56, of Park Hill, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 33 months in prison for one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine.

The charge arose from an investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office, and the Cherokee Nation Marshal Service.

On September 5, 2024, Neugin pleaded guilty to the charge.  According to investigators, on January 27, 2024, while being booked and processed by law enforcement officers at the Cherokee County Jail, Neugin was discovered to be in possession of 27.35 grams of methamphetamine, a portion of which Neugin intended for distribution.

The Honorable Ronald A. White, Chief U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, presided over the hearing.  Neugin 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 Jonathan E. Soverly represented the United States.