OKLAHOMA CITY – An Oklahoma City man convicted of five years of criminal conduct will grow old in the federal prison system while serving an 80-year sentence.
Dominic Eugene Hunt, alias “Dime Sack,” 26, was indicted in the Western District federal court here on nine firearms, ammunition, and drug-related felony counts alleging crimes that occurred between April 1, 2014, and Feb. 2, 2019.
The charges included being a drug user in possession of a firearm, maintaining a drug-involved premises, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and being a felon in possession of ammunition.
In January 2018 Hunt, who admitted he began using marijuana as a teenager, was let out of jail on supervised release with the admonition that he participate in substance abuse treatment and abstain from alcohol and “other intoxicants.”
Nevertheless, he failed to submit urine samples once in March 2018, twice in April 2018, twice in May, twice in June, twice in July, twice in September 2018, tested positive for methamphetamine in November 2018, and missed another drug test on Feb. 15, 2019. Four days later Oklahoma City police arrested Hunt for driving without a license.
Hunt pleaded guilty on Sept. 4, 2020, to three of the federal charges, and was convicted by a federal jury on the other six charges a week later after a four-day trial.
Evidence presented during the trial showed Hunt possessed three different firearms, including an assault rifle, on at least two separate occasions in 2014, in furtherance of his intent to distribute marijuana.
According to Acting U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester, evidence also showed that ammunition in Hunt’s possession was used in a January 2019 shooting, the victim of which survived. Finally, Troester said, evidence also showed that ammunition Hunt possessed was used in a drive-by shooting in south Oklahoma City on Feb. 2, 2019, which resulted in the death of Conilius “Tubby” Wright, 29, four days later.
U.S. District Judge David L. Russell on April 1 handed Hunt consecutive prison sentences totaling 960 months, records show.
The federal case against Hunt was the result of investigations by the Oklahoma City Police Department; the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, & Explosives; and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Oklahoma City Field Division. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jacquelyn M. Hutzell and David McCrary prosecuted the case.