MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Roger Christopher Simpson, age 45, of Lawton, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Use Of Telephone To Make Bomb Threat, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 844(e), punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, a fine up to $250,000.00, or both.
The Indictment alleges that on or about Jan. 22, 2019, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma, the defendant did, through use of a telephone, willfully make a threat to kill, injure, and intimidate any individual and to damage and destroy a building, vehicle, or other real or personal property, by means of fire and explosive, in and affecting interstate commerce.
The charges arose from an investigation by the Seminole Police Department, the Seminole County Sherriff’s Office, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The Honorable Kimberly E. West, U.S. Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, in Muskogee, accepted the plea and ordered the completion of a presentence investigation report.
Assistant United States Attorney Clay Compton represented the United States.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
