Carter County Resident Sentenced For Robbery And Felony Assault

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Timmy Lynn Tatum, age 18, of Sulphur, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 87 months in prison for one count of Robbery in Indian Country, and 87 months for one count of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon with Intent to Do Bodily Harm in Indian Country. The Court ordered the terms served concurrently.

The charges arose from an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Sulphur Police Department, the Murray County Sheriff's Office, and the Chickasaw Nation Lighthorse Police.

On April 1, 2025, Tatum pleaded guilty to the charges in federal district court. According to investigators, on June 30, 2024, Tatum broke into a Sulphur home, attacked and beat the victim with a firearm, and robbed the victim at gun point. Tatum left the residence, taking several items of value.

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

The Honorable Ronald A. White, Senior Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, presided over the hearing. Tatum 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 Edith A. Singer represented the United States.