OKLAHOMA CITY — Two men who damaged federal buildings have been sentenced to prison and ordered to pay restitution.
Kevin Shane Owens, 29, broke open a letterbox, mail receptacle, and other authorized depository for mail matter inside a U.S. Post Office in south Oklahoma City on Dec. 24, 2021.
He was indicted in Oklahoma City’s Western District federal court for destruction of post office letterboxes and three counts of theft and possession of stolen mail. He pleaded guilty to damaging the boxes, and the three mail charges were dismissed.
Owens was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Bernard Jones to a year and a day in prison and was ordered to pay $867 in restitution to the U.S. Postal Service. Records of the Federal Bureau of Prisons show Owens will be released from the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution on March 31.
Rickey Dion Williams, 46, of Del City admitted that on Dec. 3, 2021, he used a roofer’s hammer to break a large pane-glass window in the Federal Office Building in downtown Oklahoma City.
A Department of Homeland Security inspector said when he arrived at the scene, a federal protective security officer “informed me that Williams said he broke the window to get their attention…”
The inspector said Williams claimed he was “an angel of God,” had classified information to share with federal authorities, and “stated that his life was in danger because a $2 million bounty was placed on him by an unnamed entity.”
In a sentencing memorandum, a federal public defender asserted that Williams’ offense was “vandalism, or trespass during a psychotic break where Mr. Williams simply wanted help.” Williams “did not try to enter the building, he threatened no person, and he made no suggestion he intended to harm anyone by his statements or his actions.”
Furthermore, Williams “never attempted to enter the building” through the open public entrance doors 5 feet from where he stood, and he never attempted to flee the scene, the public defender noted. Surveillance video showed Williams setting down the hammer, and a flooring knife he was carrying, immediately after breaking the glass.
Nevertheless, Williams has a “significant prior criminal history” that began when he was 13, his attorney conceded.
“In fact, Mr. Williams was incarcerated as an adult at age 16 for juvenile offenses.” In addition, since his release from prison at age 18, drug use “has been a tremendous problem” for him.
Williams’ criminal record includes five convictions for possession of PCP and one for possession of methamphetamine. Additionally, Williams failed to appear for group substance abuse counseling sessions twice in August 2022, and on three occasions in September 2022 he tested positive for amphetamine use.
Williams pleaded guilty to destruction of government property and was sentenced by Federal District Judge Timothy DeGiusti to 18 months in prison. He also was ordered to pay $5,938 in restitution to the General Services Administration.