Stilwell Resident Sentenced For Illegally Possessing Ammunition

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Jimmy Joe Johnson, age 31, of Stilwell, Oklahoma, was sentenced to sixty-three months in prison for one count of Felon in Possession of Ammunition.

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

On October 15, 2025, Johnson pleaded guilty to the charge. According to investigators, on March 14, 2025, law enforcement discovered Johnson in possession of 18 rounds of ammunition after having been previously convicted of a crime punishable by more than one year imprisonment.

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The Honorable John A. Woodcock, Jr., Senior United States District Court Judge for the District of Maine, sitting by designation, presided over the hearing in Muskogee, Oklahoma.  Johnson 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 Lewis M. Reagan represented the United States.