The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Daeshaun Jared Ickle Cobretti Small, age 22, of Henryetta, entered a guilty plea to one count of a Superseding Indictment charging him with Involuntary Manslaughter in Indian Country, punishable by up to eight years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

The Superseding Indictment alleged that on Dec. 31, 2022, Small unlawfully killed the victim in the commission of an unlawful act not amounting to a felony, that is failing to devote full time and attention to driving and operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol and in the commission in an unlawful manner and without due caution and circumspection of a lawful act, that is, operating a motor vehicle, which might produce death.

The crime occurred in Okmulgee County, within the boundaries of the Muscogee Nation Reservation, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

The charge arose from an investigation by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The Honorable D. Edward Snow, U.S. Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, accepted the plea and ordered the completion of a pre-sentence investigation report. A U.S. District Court Judge will determine the sentence to be imposed after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

Small will remain on bond with conditions of release pending sentencing.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Kevin Gross and Jonathan E. Soverly represented the United States.