Sequoyah County Resident Sentenced Federal Drug And Firearm Related Crimes

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Beau Don Morton, age 42, of Muldrow, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for one count of illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition by a user of controlled substances, and 30 months for one count of maintaining a drug-involved premises.

The charges arose from an investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Sequoyah County Sheriff's Office.

On June 3, 2024, Morton pleaded guilty to the charges. According to investigators, on April 6, 2022, deputies with the Sequoyah County Sheriff's Office executing a search warrant on Morton's Muldrow residence discovered two small plastic baggies containing white crystalline methamphetamine, a metal canister of heroin, a small plastic bag containing 43 amphetamine tablets, a plastic container containing fentanyl tablets, multiple baggies containing sealed syringes, a set of digital scales, and an AR-15-style firearm with twelve loaded magazines of ammunition.

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. Morton 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 Edith Singer and Rachel Geizura represented the United States.