McAlester Resident Sentenced For Illegally Possessing Ammunition Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Oklahoma Dateline: Muskogee, Oklahoma Date: 8 December 2025 Subjects: American Government , Crime Topic: United States Numbered Highways

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Shawn Ronald Sather, age 55, of McAlester, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 60 months in prison for one count of Felon in Possession of Ammunition.

The charge arose from an investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Latimer County Sheriff’s Office.

On August 7, 2025, Sather pleaded guilty to the charge.  According to investigators, on April 26, 2023, deputies conducting a traffic stop on Highway 270 near Wilburton, Oklahoma, discovered Sather in possession of 5 rounds of ammunition.  At the time of the stop, Sather had previously been convicted of a crime punishable by more than one year imprisonment.

This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and gun violence, and to make our neighborhoods safer for everyone.  On May 26, 2021, the department launched a violent crime reduction strategy strengthening PSN based on these core principles: fostering trust and legitimacy in our communities, supporting community-based organizations that help prevent violence from occurring in the first place, setting focused and strategic enforcement priorities, and measuring the results.

The Honorable Ronald A. White, Chief U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, presided over the hearing.  Sather 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 Jacob R. Parker and Lewis M. Reagan represented the United States.

Updated December 11, 2025