Muskogee Resident Sentenced for Federal Crime of Arson
MUSKOGEE, Okla. — The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Daniel Lewis Moon, 26, of Muskogee was sentenced to 72 months in prison for one count of arson.
The charges arose from investigations by the Wagoner County Sheriff’s Office, the Oklahoma State Fire Marshal’s Office, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
On November 9, 2022, a federal jury found Moon guilty at trial of arson. According to investigators, on March 28, 2020, Moon, an employee at the Dollar General in Porter turned in his two-week resignation notice then purposefully lit a fire in a store aisle during business hours. Employees successfully evacuated shoppers and staff, but the fire caused significant damage before firefighters were able to extinguish it.
The Honorable Charles B. Goodwin, U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, sitting by assignment, presided over the hearing in Oklahoma City. Moon will remain in the custody of the U.S. Marshal pending transportation to a designated United States Bureau of Prisons facility to serve a non-paroleable sentence of incarceration.
Assistant United States Attorney Patrick M. Flanigan represented the United States.
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