A Henryetta man will spend the next decade in federal prison after admitting he sold a baggie containing more than 100 grams of methamphetamine. Matthew Wayne Wasson received 120 months behind bars following an investigation that involved state and federal law enforcement.
According to court records released by the U.S. Attorney's Office and detailed in a Facebook post from the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics, the drug transaction at the center of the case took place on October 3, 2024, when Wasson sold a baggie containing 107.8 grams of a crystalline substance that later tested positive for methamphetamine. As KOKH reported, the case stemmed from a joint investigation involving the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Senior U.S. District Judge John A. Woodcock Jr., of the District of Maine, sat by designation in Muskogee to preside over the hearing where Wasson received his 120-month term, per the agency's account. Wasson had formally entered his guilty plea on August 14, 2025, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jason A. Robertson in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Wasson's 120-Month Sentence
Wasson received a 120-month sentence, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics post explains.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Edith A. Singer represented the federal government at sentencing, taking over the case after Assistant U.S. Attorney Jacob R. Parker handled the earlier plea proceedings, the agency's post states.
Why the Bureau of Indian Affairs Got Involved
The Bureau of Indian Affairs joined state and federal drug task forces in the case. In May 2026, Judge Robertson issued a preliminary injunction barring the city from enforcing local criminal prosecutions against Native Americans, following a federal lawsuit filed by the Muscogee (Creek) Nation over reservation boundaries, according to MVSKOKE Media.
Part of a Broader Federal Crackdown in Eastern Oklahoma
Wasson's case fits a pattern of aggressive federal drug prosecutions across the Eastern District of Oklahoma. In September, the U.S. Attorney's Office secured an 82-year, or 982-month, sentence against an Okmulgee County resident convicted on 10 counts of armed drug trafficking involving methamphetamine and firearms, the Justice Department reported. And in June, federal prosecutors in the district obtained guilty pleas from 11 members of a drug trafficking organization charged in a joint DEA, BIA, and Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics probe involving the distribution of more than 550 grams of methamphetamine across southeast Oklahoma, per a separate Justice Department announcement.
Wasson's sentencing closes out a case that began with a single drug deal and ended with a decade-long prison term carrying no possibility of parole.
