Sequoyah County Resident Sentenced For Arson

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Trevor Scott McGuire, age 24, of Muldrow, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 57 months in prison for one count of Arson in Indian Country.

The charges arose from an investigation by the Muldrow Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

On October 2, 2024, McGuire pleaded guilty to the charge.  According to investigators, on May 26, 2024, McGuire stopped at a gas station, filled a gallon milk jug with gasoline, drove to a Muldrow residence, doused the kitchen with gasoline, then lit the residence on fire.  McGuire later admitted to committing the arson during a phone call with the owner of the residence.

The crime occurred in Sequoyah County, within the boundaries of the Cherokee Nation Reservation, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

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.  McGuire 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 Kevin Gross represented the United States.