Ardmore Resident Sentenced For Federal Firearm Charge

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Ricky Gene McGee, Jr., age 38, of Ardmore, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 27 months in prison for illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition.

The charges arose from an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Chickasaw Nation Lighthorse Police, and the Ardmore Police Department.

On February 26, 2024, McGee pleaded guilty to one count of Felon in Possession of a Firearm and Ammunition. According to investigators, on October 12, 2022, law enforcement officers conducting a routine traffic stop along Sam Noble Parkway in Ardmore, Oklahoma, saw McGee throw an object from the vehicle. During the stop, officers discovered McGee in possession of a pistol magazine loaded with eleven rounds of 9mm ammunition. Law enforcement also recovered a semiautomatic firearm lying in a nearby ditch along the route travelled by McGee's vehicle prior to the stop. The loaded firearm contained twelve rounds of 9mm ammunition inside a magazine that matched the magazine found on McGee's person. McGee knowingly possessed the firearm and ammunition after having been previously 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. McGee will remain in the 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.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan E. Soverly represented the United States.