Wagoner County Resident Sentenced For Aggravated Sexual Abuse Of A Child In Indian Country

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Clovis Lee Estes, age 36, of Wagoner, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 360 months in prison for one count of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child in Indian Country.

The charge arose from an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Wagoner County Sheriff’s Office, and the Cherokee Nation Marshal Service.

On June 26, 2025, Estes pleaded guilty to the charge.  According to investigators, on January 11, 2025, Estes knowingly engaged in a sexual act with the victim, a person who had not attained the age of 12 years.  The crime occurred in Wagoner County, within the boundaries of the Cherokee Nation Reservation, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

The Honorable John C. Coughenour, U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, sitting by assignment, presided over the hearing.  Estes 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 Morgan Muzljakovich represented the United States.