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Hugo Resident Pleads Guilty to Illegally Possessing Machine Gun

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that John Thomas Worthy, age 51, of Hugo, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to one count of Possession of a Machine Gun, punishable by up to ten years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

The Indictment charged that on January 21, 2025, Worthy knowingly possessed a firearm that had been modified to shoot more than one round of ammunition by a single function of the trigger without manual reloading.

The charge arose from an investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

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