U.S. District Judge John F. Heil, III, sentenced Bradley Wade Wofford, 37, of Jenks, for Second Degree Murder in Indian Country on Monday.
Judge Heil ordered Wofford to serve 235 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release in the court proceeding in Tulsa. Wofford pleaded guity to the charge all the way back on June 15, 2022 for the death which occurred in 2019.
According to court documents, Wofford was driving a Ford F150 truck on U.S. 412 near County Road 4180 in Inola when an accident further down the road caused traffic to slow.
Wofford rear-ended Scotty Dilbeck's Volkswagen, killing him.
Dilbeck, 48, was an Operations Engineer for Google based out of Pryor, Oklahoma and a Gulf War veteran for the US Navy. He was survived by his wife of fifteen years, three daughters and eight grandchildren.
An Oklahoma Highway Patrol investigation determined Wofford had been driving about 66 mph when he struck Dilbeck, who was driving 11 mph.
Wofford was previously convicted of driving under the influence on four separate occasions.
He is a citizen of Cherokee Nation and will remain in custody pending transfer to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.
The FBI and Oklahoma Highway Patrol investigated the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Buscemi prosecuted the case.
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