Superseding indictments have been filed in federal courtroom towards a Pittsburg County man accused of illegally promoting a gun to a federal agent.
Federal courtroom information present Eugene Lee Dozier Sr. was indicted in October 2021 by a grand jury within the Jap District of Oklahoma for partaking within the enterprise of dealing, importing, and manufacturing firearms with no license, transferring a firearm to an out-of-state resident.
Data present further indictments of possession of an unregistered firearm and possession of a firearm unidentified by serial quantity have been filed towards Dozier.
A possible trigger affidavit filed within the case by a particular agent with the ATF states the case towards Dozier started in June after brokers acquired info that he was manufacturing firearm suppressors and firearms with no federal firearms license.
Brokers wrote within the affidavit an undercover ATF agent approached Dozier outfitted with audio and video on the Muskogee Gun Present in August and acquired a pistol from Dozier together with 50 rounds of ammunition.
Dozier instructed the spy the value of the pistol was $399 and that “there isn’t any paperwork, there isn’t any tax, it’s out the door. We don’t do background checks,” the affidavit states.
In keeping with the superseding indictment, Dozier was alleged to have 5 “firearm silencers” that weren’t registered to him in federal information with 4 not having serial numbers.
Data present Dozier is free from federal pre-trial custody on an look bond.
Choose denies second movement to dismiss indictments towards native couple
A federal choose denied for a second time a movement to dismiss indictments filed towards a McAlester couple accused of abusing and neglecting a 10-year-old woman.
Court docket paperwork present Ashley Schardein, 26, alongside together with her husband, Billy Menees, 28, have been indicted in federal courtroom on counts of kid abuse in Indian nation and little one neglect in Indian nation for the alleged little one abuse and torture of a 10-year-old woman in 2020.
Menees’ legal professional filed a movement asking for the indictments to be dismissed as a result of Oklahoma’s little one abuse statue is unconstitutional on account of vagueness.
The movement additionally claims that beneath the Assimilated Crimes Act, that Choctaw Tribal Legislation ought to be used as a substitute of state legislation.
U.S. District Choose Timothy D. DeGiusti famous in his denial that the argument within the movement was “largely recycled” from a earlier movement to dismiss and that the courtroom beforehand discovered {that a} affordable particular person may perceive the kid abuse statute.
“Due to this fact, the courtroom finds the costs within the superseding indictment shouldn’t be dismissed on the bottom of vagueness. Defendants have been on discover that their alleged conduct was proscribed and that they could possibly be prosecuted for little one abuse and neglect for his or her remedy of…a minor little one,” DeGiusti wrote.
DeGiusti additionally wrote that the protection cited no case, nor was the courtroom conscious, the place a federal courtroom incorporates a tribal felony statute beneath the ACA.
“The superseding indictment correctly prices defendants with violations of Oklahoma legislation,” the choose dominated.