Firearms charge brings 27 month-term

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that Mark Allen Cummins, Jr., 33 of Tahlequah, was sentenced to 27 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release for Possession of Stolen Firearms. The defendant was also ordered to pay $3,6000 in restitution to the Cherokee Nation Marshal Service.

Charges arose from an investigation by the Cherokee Nation Marshal Service and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. CUMMINS was charged in a sealed indictment returned by the Grand Jury on March 16, 2011 and pled guilty in April, 2011.

The indictment alleged that on about June 1, 2010, to on or about Dec. 21, 2010, Cummins knowingly possessed, concealed, stored, bartered, sold and disposed of stolen firearms that he had taken from the Cherokee Nation Marshal Service where he was employed as a reserve deputy.

The Honorable James H. Payne, District Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, in Muskogee, presided over today’s hearing. The defendant will remain the custody of the United States Marshal Service pending transportation to the designated federal prison at which he will serve his nonparolable sentence.