MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma has announced that Dekentrek Donneil McDowell, also known as Deketrek D. McDowell, X Day Day, X Deezy, and X Lil Beefy, aged 20 from Ada, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to 46 months in prison. This sentence is for one count of assault with a dangerous weapon with intent to do bodily harm in Indian Country and another 46 months for threatening interstate communications. The sentences will run concurrently.
The charges stemmed from an investigation conducted by the Ada Police Department and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
McDowell pleaded guilty to these charges on January 22, 2025.
Investigators reported that on June 4, 2024, McDowell pistol-whipped an individual and then pointed a gun at their head. On July 27, 2024, he left multiple threatening voicemail messages through a cell phone application directed at a second individual and her unborn child. These incidents took place in Pontotoc County within the Chickasaw Nation Reservation boundaries in the Eastern District of Oklahoma.
The sentencing hearing was presided over by U.S. District Judge John L. Heil III at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma. McDowell will remain under the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service until he is transported to a designated United States Bureau of Prisons facility to serve his non-paroleable sentence.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael E. Robinson represented the United States in this case.
