Pontotoc County Resident Pleads Guilty To Assault And Threatening Interstate Communications

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Dekentrek Donneil McDowell, a/k/a Deketrek D. McDowell, a/k/a X Day Day, a/k/a X Deezy, a/k/a X Lil Beefy, age 19, of Ada, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to an Indictment of one count of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon with Intent to do Bodily Harm in Indian Country and one count of Threatening Interstate Communications.

The Indictment alleged that on June 4, 2024, McDowell assaulted an individual with a dangerous weapon, intending to do bodily harm, and that on July 27, 2024, McDowell knowingly and willfully transmitted by voicemail a threat to injure or kill a second individual and to kill that individual's unborn child.

The crimes occurred in Pontotoc County, within the boundaries of the Chickasaw Nation Reservation, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

The charges arose from an investigation by the Ada Police Department and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

The Honorable Gerald L. Jackson, U.S. Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, accepted the plea and ordered the completion of a presentence investigation report. McDowell will remain in the custody of the United States Marshals Service pending sentencing.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael E. Robinson represented the United States.