Wetumka Resident Sentenced For Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Joseph Anthony Paxton, age 31, of Wetumka, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 58 months in prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine.

The charges arose from investigations by the Hughes County Sheriff’s Department, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics, the District 22 Drug and Violent Crime Task Force, and the United States Drug Enforcement Administration.

On March 15, 2022, Paxton pleaded guilty to Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine.

On November 28, 2020, law enforcement executed a search warrant on Paxton’s residence in Wetumka.  Officers discovered approximately 12 grams of methamphetamine, baggies, digital scales, a .380 pistol, and ammunition.

The Honorable Ronald A. White, U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, presided over the hearings in Muskogee.  Paxton will remain in custody of the U.S. Marshal pending transportation to a designated United States Bureau of Prisons facility to serve a non-paroleable sentence of incarceration.