The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced in a press release on Monday that Austin J. Brown, 24, of Sallisaw, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for enticement and sexual abuse of a minor. According to the release, Brown will be placed on a 15-year term of supervised release following his term of imprisonment and will be required to register as a sex offender.

The charge arose from investigations by the Cherokee Nation Marshal Service, Adair County Sheriff ’s Office, Choctaw Nation Lighthorse Police, and Federal Bureau of Investigation.

On Dec. 9, 2022, Brown reportedly pleaded guilty to two counts of enticement and one count of sexual abuse of a minor.

The defendant used the internet to compel two minor victims to provide child sexual abuse materials to him and engaged in sexual acts with one of the minor victims.

The Honorable Jodi W. Dishman, U.S. District Judge in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, sitting by assignment, presided over the hearings in Oklahoma City.

Brown will remain in the custody of the U.S. Marshal pending transportation to a designated U.S. Bureau of Prisons facility to serve a non-paroleable sentence of incarceration. Assistant U.S. Attorney Caila M. Cleary represented the United States.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.

Led by the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims.