Pontotoc County Resident Sentenced For Assault And Threatening Interstate Communications

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Dekentrek Donneil McDowell, a/k/a Deketrek D. McDowell, a/k/a X Day Day, a/k/a X Deezy, a/k/a X Lil Beefy, age 20, of Ada, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 46 months in prison for one count of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon with Intent to do Bodily Harm in Indian Country and 46 months for one count of Threatening Interstate Communications. The Court ordered the terms to be served concurrently.

The charges arose from an investigation by the Ada Police Department and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

On January 22, 2025, McDowell pleaded guilty to the charges.

According to investigators on June 4, 2024, McDowell pistol-whipped an individual, then pointed the gun at the individual’s head. Then, on July 27, 2024, McDowell left multiple voicemail messages through a cell phone application threatening to kill a second individual and her unborn child.  The crimes occurred in Pontotoc County, within the boundaries of the Chickasaw Nation Reservation, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

The Honorable John L. Heil, III, U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, presided over the hearing.  McDowell 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 Michael E. Robinson represented the United States.