The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Jimmy C. Wright, 48, of Park Hill, was sentenced to 137 months in prison for one count of Sexual Abuse of a Minor in Indian Country, and to 48 months for two counts of Abusive Sexual Contact in Indian Country. The court ordered the sentences to be served concurrently.
The charges arose from an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office.
On July 24, 2025, Wright pleaded guilty to the charges. According to investigators, beginning on Feb. 27, 2024, and continuing until March 11, 2024, Wright knowingly engaged in sexual contact and sex acts with a minor child who had attained the age of 12 but was under the age of 16, and was at least four years younger than Wright.
The crimes occurred in Cherokee County, within the boundaries of the Cherokee Nation Reservation, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma.
The Honorable Robert J. Shelby, U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for the District of Utah, sitting by assignment, presided over the hearing.
Wright 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-parolable sentence of incarceration.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Wittlinger represented the United States.
