Tahlequah Resident Pleads Guilty To Child Sexual Exploitation Crime

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Anthony James Deason, age 29, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to one count of Attempted Receipt of Certain Material Involving the Sexual Exploitation of a Minor.

The Indictment alleged that Deason attempted to use a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing and transmitting a visual depiction of such conduct in interstate commerce via the internet.

The charges arose from an investigation by the Tahlequah Police Department and Homeland Security Investigations.

The Honorable Gerald L. Jackson, U.S. Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, accepted the plea and ordered the completion of a presentence investigation report.  Deason was remanded into the custody of the United States Marshals Service pending sentencing.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Caila M. Cleary represented the United States.