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Tulsa Resident Sentenced For Robbery In Indian Country

For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Oklahoma

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Wilmer Medardo Guerrero, age 24, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 24 months in prison for one count of Robbery in Indian Country.

The charge arose from an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Ada Police Department.

On March 12, 2025, Guerrero pleaded guilty to the charge.  According to investigators, on December 18, 2020, Guerrero assaulted an Ada restaurant manager, robbing the manager of the restaurant’s earnings deposit.  The victim fought back and unmasked Guerrero, a former employee, before Guerrero fled with the money.  The crime occurred in Pontotoc County, within the boundaries of the Chickasaw Nation Reservation, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

The Honorable Ronald A. White, Chief Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, presided over the hearing.  Guerrero 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. Attorneys Michael E. Robinson and Dak Cohen represented the United States.

Updated July 11, 2025

Topics
Indian Country Law and Justice
Violent Crime