Source: United States Department of Justice
MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Jason Dale Cole, age 47, of Okmulgee, Oklahoma, was sentenced in federal district court to 982 months in prison on ten counts relating to armed drug trafficking and maintaining a drug-involved premises.The Court sentenced Cole on the following charges:
- 262 months for two counts of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine;
- 120 months for one count of Possession of a Machine Gun;
- 180 months for two counts of Felon in Possession of a Firearm;
- 60 months for one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute Marijuana;
- 120 months for one count of Possession of Unregistered Firearm;
- 240 months for one count of Maintaining Drug Involved Premises;
- and 360 months for two counts of Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime, each running consecutive to the other counts for a total of 982 months.
On October 1, 2025, Cole was found guilty of the charges by a federal jury at trial.According to investigators, on November 18, 2023, an OHP trooper on patrol in Muskogee County near Haskell, Oklahoma, flagged a red pickup truck for traveling 67 miles per hour in a 45 mile per hour zone. When the driver failed to stop for lights or sirens, the trooper gave pursuit. Cole, the sole occupant and driver, attempted to evade the trooper, driving down a gravel county road before crossing into Okmulgee County, where Cole’s vehicle finally came to a stop in a wooded area. Cole attempted to flee on foot but was apprehended and arrested by the trooper without further incident.Inside on the front floorboard of the truck lay two loaded pistols—one with a machinegun conversion device—and extended magazines. Resting on the passenger seat was a bag containing over 50 grams of methamphetamine individually packaged for distribution.During a search conducted later in the morning on Cole’s rural Okmulgee County residence, law enforcement officers seized over 500 grams of methamphetamine, a large quantity of marijuana, scales covered in a crystal residue that later tested positive for methamphetamine, approximately $12,000 in cash, and a money counting machine. Law enforcement officers also seized seven firearms and five unregistered silencers from the property.At the time of arrest, Cole had prior felony convictions, including convictions for Distribution of Controlled Dangerous Substance in 1999, Felony Eluding an Officer in 2012, Driving a Motor Vehicle Under the Influence of Drugs in 2014, and Possession of Controlled Dangerous Substance in 2014, each punishable by more than a year in prison.